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Educating Rita   1983         PG-13, 110 min. Genre: Comedy Director: Lewis Gilbert   Cast: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm Douglas, Godfrey Quigley, Dearbhla Molloy, Patrick Daly, Kim Fortune, Philip Hurd-Wood, Hilary Reynolds, Jack Walsh, Christopher Casson, Rosamund Burton   A simple cockney girl Susan/Rita (Julie Walters) goes to an alcoholic English professor, Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) for literature lessons and ends up changing her life for the better. Meanwhile, his life seems to get worse. Caine and Walters were both nominated for Academy Awards.