- Educating Rita (film)
Infobox Film | name =Educating Rita
caption = Theatrical Release Poster
director =Lewis Gilbert
producer = Lewis Gilbert
writer =Willy Russell (also play)
starring =Michael Caine Julie Walters
music =
cinematography =
editing =Garth Craven
distributor =Columbia Pictures
released =September 21 ,1983 (USA)
runtime = 110 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0085478"Educating Rita" is a 1983 film of
Willy Russell 's play of the same name. It was directed byLewis Gilbert and starsJulie Walters ,Michael Caine , andMaureen Lipman with ascreenplay by Russell. The original play is for two actors and is set entirely in Frank's office at the Liverpool university; the filmed version includes a number of minor characters who are only talked about in the stage play and takes place in a number of mainly Liverpool locations.Plot
An English working-class girl wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor, however, has long since openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about her acculturation to academia.
Cast
Michael Caine ... Dr. Frank Bryant
Julie Walters ... Rita, aka Susan
Michael Williams ... Brian
Maureen Lipman ... Trish
Jeananne Crowley ... Julia
Malcolm Douglas ... Denny
Godfrey Quigley ... Rita's Father
Dearbhla Molloy ... Elaine
Production
Starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters, who reprises her role from the stage production. It was also Walters' feature film debut.
Although the setting of the film is
Liverpool , the film was shot inDublin .Trinity College, Dublin is used as the setting for the university, and the more modern Arts Building is used for Rita's summer school. The rooms used by Bryant as his office and tutorial room were those of theCollege Historical Society and theUniversity Philosophical Society respectively, and while the building was considerably refurnished, the production chose to leave portraits ofDouglas Hyde andIsaac Butt and committee photographs in the former and a bust ofJohn Pentland Mahaffy in the latter. Houses inRingsend andDún Laoghaire were used for Rita's in the film, and one inRathgar for Bryant's. The scene inFrance is in filmed in Maynooth, outside Dublin, and Connolly Station andDublin Airport were also used. The scene in the pub was shot in The Stags Head pub on Dame Court in Dublin. However the pub which Rita enters is Lloyd's pub on Amiens Street.The film won the 1983
BAFTA Award for Best Film . Caine and Walters each received an Oscar-nomination, but neither won.Trivia
Julie Walters stated on a 2008 episode ofThe One Show that she was not the first woman to be considered for the role of Rita, despite the fact that she had done the role on stage. Walters specifically mentioned that she had been put into second place due to the fact that she was not yet a star, and that more high profile names were being considered, amongst which were legendary country singer and part-time actressDolly Parton . However, she was eventually awarded the part due to the fact that withMichael Caine secured as Dr. Bryant, the film was no longer in need of a well-known face.External links
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title =BAFTA Award for Best Film
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