Educating Rita (film)

Educating Rita (1983)

A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams. The change in her status causes friction between her and her husband.

Keywords: adultery, alcohol, based-on-play, character-name-in-title, college, doctor, hairdresser, liverpool, professor, reference-to-shakespeare's-macbeth

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Dr. Frank Bryant: Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that!

[Frank has just been officially reprimanded for being drunk while giving a lecture]::Dr. Frank Bryant: Sod them, eh, Rita! Sod them!::Rita: Will they sack you?::Dr. Frank Bryant: Good God no. That would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it would have to be rape on a grand scale. And not just with students, either. That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. No, for dismissal it would have to be nothing less than buggering the Bursar.

[Rita discovers Frank packing all his books into crates]::Rita: Have they sacked you?::Dr. Frank Bryant: I made rather a night of it last night so they're giving me a holiday. Two years in Australia.::Rita: Did you bugger the Bursar?::Dr. Frank Bryant: Metaphorically.

Rita: Christ! My customer! She only come in for a demi-wave, she'll come out looking like a flippin' muppet!

Collins: Doctor Bryant, I don't think you're listening to me.::Dr. Frank Bryant: Mr Collins, I don't think you're saying anything to me.::Collins: Doctor, are you drunk?::Dr. Frank Bryant: Drunk? Of course I'm drunk. You don't really expect me to teach this when I'm sober.::Collins: [angrily bundling his books together] Then you won't mind if I leave your tutorial.::Dr. Frank Bryant: Why should I mind?

[first words to Rita as she opens the door of her flat]::Trish: Wouldn't you just *die* without Mahler?

[Rita is being nosy about Frank's marriage]::Dr. Frank Bryant: We split up, Rita, because of poetry.::Rita: You what?::Dr. Frank Bryant: One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.::Rita: Are you a poet?::Dr. Frank Bryant: Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.::Rita: What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?::Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I stopped writing altogether.

[Trish has just tried to kill herself; Rita goes to visit her in hospital]::Rita: Why?::Trish: Darling, why not?::Rita: Oh, Trish, don't. Come on, it's all right, don't cry. You're still here.::Trish: That's why I'm crying - it didn't work. It didn't bloody work.::Rita: Trish. Look, you didn't really mean to kill yourself. You were just...::Trish: Just what, darling? Poor Susan. You think you've got everything, don't you?::Rita: Trish, you have.::Trish: Oh yes. When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough.

Rita's Mother: There must be better songs to sing than this...

Rita's Father: Say, Denny. Denny, I'm sorry for you, lad. If she was a wife of mine I'd drown her.::Rita: If I was a wife of yours I'd drown meself.