Watch: Educating Rita 1983 123movies, Full Movie Online – An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education..
Plot: Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to ‘discover’ herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can’t get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge… and along comes Rita.
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singing a better song
What a novel concept – a college movie that isn’t about frat parties! Since “Educating Rita” is one of the only movies which explores the true value of schooling, it remains close to this nerd’s heart. In fact, in a rather weird conjunction with “Rocky,” it inspired me to leave my lousy office job and get a graduate degree – to better meself, as Rita might say.What are the criticisms here – too long, too stagey, silly synth music? This is not my idea of a slow movie. I like the characters enough to stick with them, even if they aren’t…well…moving around much! Surely their personal conflicts are interesting enough to keep me watching, even in the absence of car chases and explosions.
Walters and Caine are likable, the message is empowering (but realistic – Rita really suffers when she tries to change her life), and, just for a change, alcoholism is treated as a serious problem. Is it too sentimental? Well, I always cry. Or at least sniffle. I think that means the movie is moving, rather than sentimental.
Enough defensiveness – this movie is lovely! Where’s the American DVD release, then?
Can’t Get It Out of My Head
Whatever its faults and flaws might be, I’ve never been able – or wanted to – get ‘Educating Rita’ out of my head. What makes it so memorable, such a touchstone? Is it Julie Walters’s expressive face? Is it Michael Caine’s professor being chivvied from his sodden rut by the pixilated yet determined Rita? Is it the wit and good humor and Rational-enquiry-and-argument-as-drama of the screenplay? Is it the dated electronic score that somehow dates the film but not its cerebral or emotional impact? Truth is I don’t know what makes ‘Educating Rita’ so memorable for me – in my head scenes and snippets of this film just pop up and play whenever they’ve a mind to! – and perhaps that’s what makes this film exemplary as movie magic. It deserved and deserves more viewers – whether or not they’ll like isn’t important: as Rita/Susan says, she now has “choices” – and in my head when its scenes play I can’t help giving it unending applause.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Lewis Gilbert
Writer Willy Russell
Actors Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams
Country N/A
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 6 wins & 8 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm