Educating Rita

Educating Rita (1983)

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Dr. Frank Bryant: Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless.

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.

Dr. Frank Bryant: What does it say?
Rita: Right. I've passed. Now will you get on that bloody plane?
Dr. Frank Bryant: Let me see. You've passed with distinction. I'm proud of you, Rita.
Rita: I'm proud of both of us.

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

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

Continuity mistake: When Frank picks Rita up from the railway station, it is a cloudy day. As they drive away, it has suddenly become a very clear sunny afternoon. Furthermore, their places in the car have been taken by stunt doubles, with Michael Caine's stand-in sporting noticeably longer, darker and thicker hair. (01:02:35)

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Question: Where is Educating Rita meant to be set? I know that it is all filmed in Dublin but none of the characters are Irish - they are Liverpudlian or else have indistinguishable "posh" accents.

Gail Field

Chosen answer: It isn't meant to be set anywhere in particular.

jle

Answer: Liverpool.

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