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	Educating Rita (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		But Rita is new and fresh, initially Rita doesn't possess the skills required to write analytical essays; but she is different, she is vibrant, she is funny and she is unbelievably up front.
		As their relationship blossoms and Rita starts to find herself, she becomes increasingly drawn to the student way of life, and when Franks life is enriched because of her presence and her willingness to learn he sends her to a summer camp, to be educated at a greater level.
		Educating Rita is funny, expressive, sentimental, poignant and sad, as Frank must come to terms with the young bird fleeing the nest, whilst Rita begins to realize what she is becoming.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0085478 (891 words)

	Educating Rita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Educating Rita is about Susan White (Walters in the movie), a married woman in her twenties working as a hairdresser who signs up for a course at the Open University because she is eager to learn.
		Failing to see that Rita is no longer dependent on him, he asks her to spend the rest of his life with him, but Rita -- or rather Susan, as she calls herself now again -- politely refuses.
		Educating Rita is a play for two characters and set entirely in Frank's office at the university, whereas the filmed version includes a number of minor characters who are only talked about in the stage play.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Educating_Rita (399 words)

	Rita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rita R. Colwell, an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator.
		Rita Deverell, a Canadian television broadcaster and social activist.
		Rita Mae Brown, a prolific American writer and social activist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rita (204 words)

	Educating Rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rita connects culture and happiness, and as culture is connected to the upper class, she has to get educated as a means of getting happy or content with her life.
		Rita shows that she cares for Frank and, simultaneously, that she is independent as she criticizes his drinking and tells him that the students’ report was probably for his own good.
		Rita completely lost the aims she pointed out in Act I Scene I. At that stage, without thoroughly understanding it, she wanted to use education as a means of getting access to culture, profundity in her life, to have the ability to talk about "things that matter"- but in a positive sense.
	home.arcor.de /rico.fischer/hausaufgaben/Englisch/Rita.html (8242 words)

	educating rita
		Rita wants to be 'successful' because she thinks she is unhappy where she IS. What will happen is that she will CHANGE as a result into someone different and that will affect the way she is as a person.
		Her 'education' has begun to turn her into a snob and she has turned away from her roots to such an extent that she is now like a stranger.
		Rita's education changes her into a different woman - stronger, more resilient but also moves her out of her class into a world which is much more challenging but probably not so honest as the one she leaves.
	www.litnotes.co.uk /educatin.htm (1645 words)

	Educating Rita
		Rita wants to be of a higher status than her friends and family, and assumes the course will bring about this transformation.
		Rita had ambition to do well, and could see that many people accepted their lives as they were not bothering to try and change them, yet she wanted a chance of freedom and choice.
		Rita, at the start, is a very bold character, reflected in her unsophisticated and flamboyant choice of clothing, and is dissatisfied with her life.
	www.gcseguide.co.uk /educating_rita.htm (3259 words)

	Essay Depot - Educating Rita
		Rita’s education is not restricted to scholastic learning alone, her transformation from the uneducated Rita to the educated Susan is all encompassing.
		Rita sees and understands the importance of being well educated, but for Rita, education helps her to overcome her background and break away from the traditional role expected of a woman in the 1970s.
		Rita came to believe that she wasn’t just doing this for herself, she was doing it for all the women like her mother who never had the chance to make something of themselves, who were forced to fill the traditional ‘house-wife role’.
	www.essaydepot.com /essayme/1582/index.php (1040 words)

	rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rita, a working-class young woman in a large, unnamed northern English city, has decided to change her life by becoming educated.
		For Rita, Frank is "a crazy mad piss artist who wants to throw his students through the window"--the kind of antic figure she never expected to find behind the solemn gates of a university.
		It may be said that the central action of the play is Rita's movement from membership in the working-class, to half-caste status, to final success as she enters the educated class with the passing of her exam.
	www.thepublictheatre.org /guides/9798_educating_rita.html (3799 words)

	Willy Russell - Educating Rita page1
		His student Rita is a brash, earthy hairdresser with a recently discovered passion for higher education, much to the dismay of her husband Denny.
		Much of the comedy arises from Rita's fresh, unschooled reaction to the classics of English literature, but she is never patronised by the Willy, who recognises from his own experience that education is a means of escape from one's own circumstances.
		Educating Rita is a simple yet powerful story that reaches the hearts of people and has been performed in dozens of countries across the world.
	www.willyrussell.com /rita1.html (485 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - Educating Rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frank and Rita are reminiscent of another famous English mentor-student duo, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, as Frank views Rita with the same degree of clinical indifference as Higgins looked at Eliza, as little more than a means to an end.
		It's no secret that Educating Rita is as much about the values learned by Frank through his connection to Rita as it is about Rita's transfomation from a simple but sweet young lady somewhat scared of a greater society into a self-confident and self-fulfilled woman.
		Educating Rita is a nice little slice-of-life effort, with no tidy answers other than showing the patron two ways to look at life, the oft-quoted half-empty or half-full.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/educating_rita.html (496 words)

	JS Online: Book vs. street smarts
		Rita is a 26-year-old student and a hairdresser who's looking for more than perms and peroxide to change her life.
		With swift pacing and sharp humor, "Educating Rita" presents a contest of wits between Frank with his traditional education, his book learning, on one side, and, Rita, with her street smarts and common sense savvy on the other.
		Rita, on the other hand, believes that when she has a "room full of books," knows "what clothes to wear, what wine to buy, what plays to see," she will be educated.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/may05/325260.asp (830 words)

	Educating Rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rita, to be sure, has good reasons for being weary of Frank's remarks, for Frank has been deteriorating at almost the same rate as Rita progressed with her education.
		Rita has to learn at the end of the movie that the culture and education that she has acquired with the help of people like Frank and Trish does not necessarily amount to the rich new existence that she had hoped for when she enrolled in the Open University.
		Proposing to Rita that she go with him to this new beginning, he points out that "in Australia everything is only just starting, while in England everything is ending." It would be the ideal completion of Rita's education if she left everything behind, her limiting old life as well as her newly acquired culture.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/EduRita.htm (4446 words)

	Educating Rita Preface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rita also insists that she wants to "discover herself"--her true self, that is, a self more authentic than the one shaped by her early social environment and the conventional expectations and pressures that are designed to keep her in "her place." But what is a person's true self?
		Rita, in other words, naturally encounters all the questions that have always brought people to Philosophy, and which for this reason have been basic and central to that discipline.
		And as the story of Rita substantiates Mill’s tenet that the life of a dissatisfied Socrates is happier than the life of a satisfied pig, other films explicate the influential life-conceptions of different thinkers.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/RitaPreface.htm (968 words)

	Review Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Rita and Frank are both dissatisfied with their lives but for different reasons.
		Rita squandered her first chance at learning by succumbing to peer pressure not to take school seriously.
		Rita's determination is clear from the start in Michelle Hand's engaging performance, which admirably delineates Rita's personal growth in the course of her studies.
	www.mindspring.com /~melkur/rita_reviews.htm (854 words)

	Educating Rita on DVD - MovieWeb
		As Rita engages her teacher in a fuzzy romance, she matures and discovers a new side of herself, but in the end she must choose either her marriage or the magnetic Dr. Bryant.
		EDUCATING RITA reunites director Lewis Gilbert with star Michael Caine--they previously worked together in the 1966 drama ALFIE--and once again their collaboration is staggering.
		In EDUCATING RITA, Gilbert once again demonstrates that he is not only a master of commanding the camera but a master at deconstructing the human heart as well.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?043396078987 (238 words)

	JS Online: A visceral 'Rita' reveals education's true nature
		Like Frank and Rita, Smith and Stillman are markedly unequal in age, experience and achievement, but by the end of the play a satisfying and affecting balance exists between them.
		Rita is a brash, rough-edged English hairdresser who at 26 musters the moxie to follow an inner voice telling her there is more to life than getting drunk.
		Rita refuses to mute the insistent little voice within her, and she sacrifices a marriage, friends and a familiar way of life to pursue change.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/may05/326167.asp?format=print (645 words)

	BBC - Essex Footlights - Educating Rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The South Woodham Players bring you their latest production Educating Rita – a play for one man and one woman set in the room of a university of the North of England.
		Rita is a forthright, 26 year-old, hairdresser hungry to find some meaning to life and "know everything".
		The effects are both amusing and serious as her fresh, intuitive approach becomes clouded and stifled as she grapples with the problem of a formal education geared to the passing of exams.
	www.bbc.co.uk /essex/going_out/footlights/whats_on/south_woodham_players/educating_rita.shtml (186 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Educating Rita at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The film was a translation of Russell’s stage play from the early 1980’s, it represented a close eye view of a working class woman who was determined to break out from the restrictive shell her life had become, a voyage of discovery and self improvement that she undertake through attending university as a mature student.
		Rita is hungry for knowledge, Frank is tired of it and considers it a burden.
		It is Rita’s presence that begins to rekindle Frank’s motivation as well, she is a breath of fresh air without pretension and although he is initially hesitant about tutoring her literary demands eventually he finds that despite the cultural differences between them in terms of class and education they are surprisingly like minded.
	www.epinions.com /content_20901564036 (620 words)

	Educating Rita - Review - Ambition Leads The Way
		Educating Rita is a comedy-drama, and you have as much laughs as you do enjoyment.
		Rita is unhappy with who she is. We don't know what happened to her in school, but for some reason she didn't further her education.
		Educating Rita doesn't have a bad scene in it, and this is what films are supposed to like.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-e/educating-rita/422478 (1166 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Educating Rita
		Educating Rita is a charming but ultimately uninventive Pygmalion-style tale that would go nowhere without sparkling performances by Michael Caine and especially by Julie Walters as a 26-year-old lower-class striver who just wants to make something better of herself… even if all her husband, family, and friends persist in trying to beat her down.
		There is deeply felt emotion in Educating Rita, especially in a moment in a noisy pub when Rita notices her downtrodden mother softly crying as the drunken louts all around her sing some stupid pub song.
		She tells Rita there must be better songs to sing than this, and Rita, seeing the wreck her mother has become over the years, couldn’t agree more.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/f84e407cb3c9aa3d082570cd001013e4?OpenDocument (496 words)

	Educating Rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Frank is a teacher of English at a university in the north of England, whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to seek refuge in the bottle of whisky he hides on his bookshelf.
		Rita is a forthright, twenty-six year old hairdresser who is hungry to find some meaning to life.
		The effects are both amusing and serious as she grapples with the problems of a formal education.
	members.aol.com /wgrsoc/educating_rita.htm (80 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Arts and Entertainment: Cornerstone's "Educating Rita" scores a low grade
		Willy Russell's 1980 play "Educating Rita" is all about educating Rita, a disgruntled hairdresser who's decided that ignorance is not bliss, and neither is her job or her marriage.
		He's retreated into the bottle, but when Rita shows up, her working-class manners and obvious wonderment at things he long ago took for granted rouse him to renew his enthusiasm for his job, and an odd relationship begins where he teaches Rita about literature, and she teaches him about enjoying it.
		Rita's earthy humor in Frank's staid office provides a few comic moments, as does Frank's grouchy admissions that there are some things worth studying, these are few and far between.
	onmilwaukee.com /ent/articles/rita.html (679 words)

	Educating Rita Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alexandra Boyd is marvelous as Rita, the spunky working-class woman who decides to expand her mind by pursuing a university extension course in English literature, despite the restraints of husband, family and social pressure.
		Boyd's Rita is unself-consciously brash, even crass; but she's also passionate, playful, tenaciously determined and remarkably humble -- occasionally, all at the same time.
		Educating Rita, their inaugural production in the 500-seat Hermosa Civic Theatre, is both a fine choice and well done.
	www.hermosabeachplayhouse.com /reviews2.htm (763 words)

	Educating Rita
		Rita needs a tutor, and she selects Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), an alcoholic college literature professor whose life is a shambles.
		Bryant's domestic turmoil is mirrored by Rita's, as she has opted for college over motherhood, a source of friction between her and her husband.
		As Rita blooms intellectually under the tutelage of Bryant, she realizes that what she really lacks is self-confidence, not education, and a gentle romance blossoms between her and Bryant.
	www.djangomusic.com /item_movie.asp?id=V++++15330&afid=DEB0040131517 (187 words)

	Educating Rita
		Rita also believes that there is something wrong with society, everyone is sad but seems to cover up for it by getting more money as unions, TV and the papers tell you to, "there's like a disease but no one mentions it, they behave as though its normal….".
		From this Rita thinks that she is educated, Frank also knows Rita is starting to become more educated and is kind of getting jealous, he tells Rita this by giving her one of his pieces of poetry.
		When Trish tries to commit suicide Rita realises that she is not educated, this is because Rita thought that Trish had everything but Trish knew she didn't, Rita also realises this now.
	www.courseworkbank.co.uk /coursework/educating_rita_1493 (792 words)

	Language and Identity, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Willy Russell’s Educating Rita
		Eliza and Rita, the principal characters of the two plays are both objects of identity change in the course of the stories.
		Rita is a twenty-six-year-old, brash, earthy hairdresser, married to a Liverpudlian beerdrinker who demands her to have children and to be a good wife.
		Rita, on the other hand, keeps her old manners of talking like an uneducated woman.
	hem.passagen.se /pasteur/LanguageIdentity.htm (716 words)

	Educating Rita by Willy Russell
		This will affect the relationship because Frank doesn't want to change Rita but Rita wants Frank to help change her, so it is inevitable that there would be a clash of wills.
		Rita has gained a larger vocabulary at the summer school and begins to speak more objectively which is what Frank described the language of education to be.
		Trish's is Rita's flat mate and has a large influence on Rita; this is shown when Trish tells Rita to talk in Standard English, which she does (to Frank's annoyance).
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	Educating Rita
		Rita changed her job because she thought that she could talk in the bistro about more important things than the hairdresser job, she also begins to drift away from Frank by being less personal.
		Rita before used to look forward to coming to see Frank and have her tutorials all week.
		Rita is very under confident as when Frank invites her to dinner she doesn't show up because she believes that she wouldn't be able
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