Academy Award-winner Michael Caine* along with Julie Walters earned well-deserved 1983 Oscar nominations (Best Actor and Best Actress respectively) for their outstanding performances in this brilliant bittersweet comedy.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.Earning a third Oscar nomination for its screenplay by William Russell (based on his play) Educating Rita is a very funny very charming and thoroughly entertaining film.