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An Education
An education isn't always by the book.
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
- Original title
- An Education
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US,GB
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $26,096,852
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Jul 18, 2024 · via TMDB
Sixteen year old "Jenny" (Carey Mulligan) lives with her aspiring, middle class, parents "Jack" (Alfred Molina) and "Marjorie" (Cara Seymour) whose only real desire in life is for her to study at Oxford University. This is and has been her sole focus throughout her childhood, until, that is - she encounters the dashing "David" (Peter Skarsgard). He's easily twice her age but is so much more stimulating than her schoolboy friend "Graham" (Matthew Beard). This isn't a sweep her off her feet relationship, he gradually engages her in conversation and finds they share common interests. He makes her feel special, interesting, grown up - and when he introduces her to his friends "Danny" (Dominic Cooper) and "Helen" (Rosamund Pike) she starts to feel like the proper fourth wheel on a social wagon that's truly exhilarating. Needless to say, her schoolwork starts to suffer - much to the chagrin of her teacher (Olivia Williams) and, like we all were at that age, there's no telling her that her short term path is not necessarily in her long term interests. As the film develops, we discover that though harmless enough, "David" and his pal are a pair of cads who make their living legally, but maybe just a little immorally - and when "Jenny" discovers that he has one whopping great (if predictable) skeleton in his closet, she has to put her new found maturity to good use. There's something very natural not just about Mulligan's performance here, but also about her burgeoning relationship with a man who knows just which buttons to press. He's not a nasty man, he has no agenda to get her straight into bed, indeed he seems just as dependent on having this young woman around to make him feel alive as she does him; and those characterisations proves quite effective. The star for me, though, was probably Molina. He portrays almost perfectly a father whose dreams for his daughter partnered with his own middle-class mores leaves him caught between his paternal instincts to protect his daughter and his ambitions that she live a better, more fulfilled, life than he. It does run out of steam a little at the end, but then again I'm not quite sure how I would have wanted it to conclude without copping out - one way or another, so maybe it is for the best. It looks classy, the 1960s cars, costumes and soundtrack see to that and it's well worth a watch,
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Carey Mulligan
Jenny Mellor
Peter Sarsgaard
David Goldman
Dominic Cooper
Danny
Rosamund Pike
Helen
Olivia Williams
Miss Stubbs
Alfred Molina
Jack Mellor
Cara Seymour
Majorie
Sally Hawkins
Sarah Goldman
Emma Thompson
Headmistress
James Norton
Student
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes
Hattie
William Melling
Small Boy #1
Connor Catchpole
Small Boy #2
Matthew Beard
Graham
Ellie Kendrick
Tina
Nick Sampson
Auctioneer
Luis Soto
Rachman
Kate Duchêne
Latin Teacher
John de Borman
Director of Photography
Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Costume Design
Lone Scherfig
Director
Barney Pilling
Editor
Lucy Bevan
Casting
David M. Thompson
Executive Producer
Nick Hornby
Executive Producer
Wendy Japhet
Executive Producer
Paul Englishby
Original Music Composer
Adam Mendez
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Simon J. Willis
Sound Recordist
Glenn Freemantle
Sound Supervisor
Nick Hornby
Screenplay
Why Won't You Dance?
Here Now
Alexandra
Portrait of a Smile
Ambrogio
Tokyo Story
Yojimbo
Red, White and Blue
This Is England
On Golden Pond
The Proposal
Flywheel
Love in the Afternoon
The Disco Shines
Hard Miles
Truly Madly Deeply
Summertime
If the Father and the Son
Reba McEntire's The Hammer
Princess Cyd
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Red Road
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
Yevdokiya
Iris
Titane
Shed Skin Papa
Nobody Loves Me
Teen Wolf
Gigi
Arranged
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Don't Tell
Better Than Chocolate
Christmas, Love and Fudge
Oliver's Universe
The Girl Has Flown
Out to Sea
Tru Love
Angel
What if it Works?
Laughter and Punishment
Jet Lag
Freche Mädchen
Inherit the Viper
About Adam
Boxing Helena
Eva
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
Poison Ivy 2: Lily
Silence Is Welcome
Popcorn
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
Keep the Change
The Funeral
The Disease Has Taken the Farmhouse
Only the Devil Hates Water
Downburst
Essentially Amy
Life in a Year
Flipped
Me Before You
The Bridges of Madison County
The Longest Ride
I Still Believe
The Fabelmans
Boyhood
The Best of Me
Breathe
Dirty Dancing
Turtles All the Way Down
We Live in Time
The Last Song
Everything, Everything
After
A Taste of Honey
The Glass Castle
Remember Me
Regretting You
Get Real
Before I Fall
Boy Erased
Charlie St. Cloud
Endless Love
Elena Undone
Priscilla
That Night
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Jan 18, 2009
Sundance Film Festival
Oct 30, 2009
