Product: Educating Rita (UK) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]
Rating: 3.0
Incoherent
This movie features fine performances and appealing characters. Unfortunately, the script is a mess. It begins very promisingly with the story of a tough lower-class girl who comes to be educated by a previously bored literature professor. But then it just peters out - the prof and Rita go their separate ways too soon, and the prof is a drunk who tears up his own writings and then hops on a plane to Australia in what I suppose is meant to be a happy ending even though nothing has been resolved. Rita does get educated, but it isn't much fun when it happens because we're too busy trying to follow the overlong, twisted screenplay. Needed a good rewrite.