In Liverpool, twenty-seven-year-old hairdresser Rita (Dame Julie Walters) decides to complete her basic education before having children, as desired by her husband Denny (Malcolm Douglas). She joins a literature course in an open university and is tutored by the middle-aged Dr. Frank Bryant (Sir Michael Caine), an alcoholic and debauched professor from the upper-class, whose life has left him emotionally drained, without self-esteem. Frank lives with Julia (Jeananne Crowley),... (Full plot summary below)
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In Liverpool, twenty-seven-year-old hairdresser Rita (Dame Julie Walters) decides to complete her basic education before having children, as desired by her husband Denny (Malcolm Douglas). She joins a literature course in an open university and is tutored by the middle-aged Dr. Frank Bryant (Sir Michael Caine), an alcoholic and debauched professor from the upper-class, whose life has left him emotionally drained, without self-esteem. Frank lives with Julia (Jeananne Crowley), who's also a professor, and has a loveless marriage. Julia has a love affair with Dean Brian (Michael Williams). Rita's humor and determination to improve herself is contagious. She gives motivation to Frank, who helps prepare her for the exams to join the university, and be able to leave Denny. Will she succeed in the exams?
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| Movie NationRoger MooreOne of the finest films of the ’80s, a high point for Caine, Walters and Gilbert and a movie I think about all the time because it literally changed my life. |
| EmpireIan NathanLewis Gilbert, and two career best performances from his leading actors, give this film such energy it leaves the pleasant aroma of life and possibility. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeComedy with romantic touches that manages to be appealing and moving. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyInspired by Pygmalion and other works about mentor-pupil troubled/rewarding interaction, Lewis Gilbert's film is too theatrical, betraying its origins, but it's elevated by sparkling performances from Michael Caine and paricularly newcomer Julie Walters |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe plot is ''Pygmalion'' warmed over, but Michael Caine and Julie Walters give sparkling performances, and director Lewis Gilbert keeps the action humming along. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe film doesn't transcend its genre, but it's an honorable achievement within it. |
| Filmcritic.comDon WillmottLewis Gilbert has taken a two-person play from stage to screen and cracked it open |
| Movie BoeufDavid N. ButterworthTime has not been kind to "Educating Rita." |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEducating Rita, which might have been a charming human comedy, disintegrated into a forced march through a formula relationship. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe essentially two-character play has been opened up to the point that it includes a variety of settings and subordinate figures, but it never approaches anything lifelike. |
