An Education (2009)
Storyline
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.
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Cast
Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Peter Sarsgaard, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Sally Hawkins, Dominic Cooper, Cara Seymour, William Melling, Connor Catchpole, Matthew Beard, Ellie Kendrick, James Norton, Nick Sampson, Bel Parker, Luis Soto, Olenka Wrzesniewski, Bryony Wadsworth, Ashley Taylor-Rhys, Beth Rowley, Ben Castle, Mark Edwards, Tom Rees-Roberts, Arne Somogyi, Paul Pilot, Phil Wilkinson, Kate Duchêne
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Reviews
100
An Education captures the very limited possibilities for female liberation in early-'60s London -- with massive social change on the distant horizon, but not here yet -- in exquisite detail.
91
Afterward, you'll want to listen to the Beatles sing ''She's Leaving Home.'' It might be a girl like Jenny the lads had in mind.
91
An Education shares with Hornby’s best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper-verbal young people let the music, films, books, and art they love define themselves as they figure out who they are and what they want to be.
90
Topped by a fine cast, a first-rate script by Nick Hornby and tight direction by Lone Scherfig, the film is a smart, moving but not inaccessible entry in the coming-of-age canon.
88
Rolling Stone
An Education is remarkable for the traps it doesn't fall into. Jenny, for all her naive impulses, isn't a victim.
