It stars Alan Alda, Natasha Lyonne and Marisa Tomei. That's not quite the way Vivian sees it. The education available in the Beverly Hills school district.
Education is forever.
Except that Murray is too busy just hustling to make ends meet to keep an eye on his family. And Rita, under the pretense of launching a career, enrolls in med-tech school, all the while chasing a boyfriend from rehab. But he can't keep up his pretense of a normal life long enough to reel her in. Jenkins' script apparently has autobiographical elements. Though she's set the film in 1976, there's little that feels specific to the period, beyond the fashions of the time.