Educating Rita / Columbia Pictures presents an Acorn Pictures a Lewis Gilbert film ; producer and director, Lewis Gilbert ; screenplay, Willy Russell.

Rita, a young working-class woman, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser as well as a confining existence at home. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned English professor who encourages his...

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