Academy Award(r)-winner Michael Caine (Best Actor in a Supporting Role, TheCider House Rules, 1999, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986) along with Julie Walters earned well-deserved 1983 Oscar(r) nominations (Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively) for their outstanding performances in this brilliant, bittersweet comedy. Walters is Rita, a working-class woman seeking the path to self-discovery. Bored with her life as a hairdresser, and under pressure from her husband to start a family, she enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university determined to better herself. Caine is FrankBryant, the disillusioned English professor who is assigned to teach her. While Frank watches Rita embark on a radical transformation, his own life takes on a different kind of transformation as he finds himself falling in love with Rita while sinking into the depths of his alcoholism. Earning a third Oscar(r) nomination for its screenplay by William Russell.
- Actors: Julie Walters, Michael Caine
- Directors: Lewis Gilbert
- Producers: Lewis Gilbert, William P. Cartlidge
- Format: Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Subtitles: English, French
- Dubbed: French
- Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated:
PG
- DVD Release Date: January 24, 2006
- Run Time: 111 minutes
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- ASIN: B000C20VSW
