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An Education

Release Date: Friday, October 9, 2009 Limited

Director: Lone Scherfig

Starring: Sally Hawkins Emma Thompson Peter Sarsgaard Carey Mulligan Rosamund Pike

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 35 m

  • 4.3 / 5
64% 36%

Plot

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Plot
"An Education" is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in 1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war 1950s and the glamorous, more liberated decade to come. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink of becoming a woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose suburban life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable 30-something David (Peter Sarsgaard). Urbane and witty, David manages to charm her conservative parents Jack (Alfred Molina) and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just as Jenny's family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life.
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The film's director Lone Scherfig last directed The Kindness of Strangers and Their Finest. The film's writer Nick Hornby last wrote Brooklyn and Wild.

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Finola Dwyer
Amanda Posey

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Key Facts

  • Based on a memoir by Lynn Barber, which appeared in literary magazine Granta.

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Parent Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking
Runtime
1 hr, 35 m
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Language
English

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Release Dates

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An Education was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, October 9, 2009. There were 12 other movies released on the same date, including Couples Retreat, From Mexico with Love and Passport to Love. As a limited release, An Education was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.

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