Educating Rita

Frank is a tutor of English whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to the bottle. Rita (Rita Broderick) is a hairdresser hungry to find some meaning to life. With Frank as her tutor Rita embarks on an Open University course and her education process begins. The effects are both amusing and dramatic as her fresh, intuitive approach becomes clouded and stifled as she grapples with the problem of a formal education, while Frank also learns something – to believe in himself again.