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SUMMARY:EED Film Series: 'Educating Rita' - Garth Stahl\, Faculty of Educa
 tion
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first annual EED film series (2011-12).
   \n\nA Liverpudlian working-class girl wants to better herself by studyin
 g literature. Her assigned Open University professor\, Frank (Caine) is a 
 jaded university lecturer\, who describes his occupational ability as 'app
 alling but good enough for his appalling students'. His passion for the su
 bject is reignited by Rita (Walters)\, whose technical ability for the sub
 ject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds 
 refreshing.\nThe film focuses on how Rita struggles to still interact with
  her peers from her own working class background\, but similarly struggles
  to fit into the educated middle-class. Rita's original preconceptions of 
 the educated classes having better lives and being happier people are brou
 ght into question throughout the film through Frank's failing social life 
 and alcoholism and her flatmate Trish's attempted suicide.\nAt the 37th Br
 itish Academy Film Awards\, Educating Rita won Best Film\, with Caine and 
 Walters receiving Best Actor/Actress awards.\n\nFree popcorn and drinks pr
 ovided!
LOCATION:Donald McIntryre Building 2S4
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