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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   1,194 votes
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Director:

Lone Scherfig

Writers:

Lynn Barber (memoir)
Nick Hornby (screenplay)

Contact:

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Release Date:

8 October 2009 (New Zealand) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age. | full synopsis

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination more

NewsDesk:
(295 articles)

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An Education (Review)
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User Comments:

A brilliant Coming of Age film! more (23 total)

US Showtimes:

The Landmark 12:00pm | 2:25 | 4:50 | 7:20 | 9:40 (personalize) more


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking.

Runtime:

USA:95 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Australia:M | Ireland:15A | UK:12A | Singapore:PG | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Ontario) | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Company:

BBC Films more


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Trivia:

Carey Mulligan mentioned in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival that some of the most enjoyable moments of filming where when there were actors who only came in for a day or so, like Sally Hawkins and Emma Thompson, and she particularly enjoyed the four scenes she shot with the latter, whom she described as being "amazing", and called her acting "brilliant". more

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When the traps open at Walthamstow Dog track, there is an advert for the Racing Post. This paper didn't exist until 20 years later. more

Quotes:

David: Do you go yo concerts?
Jenny: No. We don't believe in concerts.
David: Oh, I assure you, they're real.
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Movie Connections:

Featured in 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009) (TV) more


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A brilliant Coming of Age film!, 3 November 2009
10/10
Author: Tim Johnson from Fremantle, Australia

A movie that causes one to remember, reflect and discuss is a very rare movie and probably one not made in Hollywood-- such is the case with An Education. Diane and I saw this film yesterday in Fremantle and we were both totally absorbed by its truthfulness, its accuracy and its (perhaps unexpectedly) gentleness. The coming of age of a young girl on the doorstep of adulthood is an often examined subject and Nick Hornby, at least to my standards, avoided the pitfalls that litter the pathway of many scripts written by lesser writers. I cannot speak highly enough for the acting principals led by Sarsgaard and Pike; they played masterful roles, as did every other actor on screen. Truthfully, there was not a weak link in the entire film. Diane was particularly moved by the basic predicament of a young woman who saw the enticing situations available to adults, an adulthood for which she was prepared but unavailable to her on her current path (reading English at Oxford). However, and this is the big however, there were obstacles in that path to adulthood that she did not, could not, foresee and therein lies the meat of this wonderful time piece set just as English society, in an inescapable metaphor, in the early Sixties is about to explode in its own societal version of the personal drama played out on our screen. An Education is a wonderful movie and I recommend it to any thinking person.

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