Directed by:
Lewis GilbertScreenplay:
Willy RussellCinematography:
Frank WattsCast:
Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Maureen Lipman, Des Nealon, Alan Stanford, Michael Williams, Godfrey Quigley, Kim Fortune, Dearbhla Molloy, Gabrielle Reidy (more)Plots(1)
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 Frank Bryant, 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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Michael Caine
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Maureen Lipman
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Des Nealon
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Alan Stanford
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Michael Williams
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Godfrey Quigley
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Kim Fortune
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Dearbhla Molloy
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Gabrielle Reidy
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Derry Power
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