An Education (2009)

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"An Education" (2009) - Sony Pictures Classics

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Oct 9, 2009

Running Time: 100 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Olivia Williams, Matthew Beard, Dominic Cooper, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike

director: Lone Scherfig

An Education

In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man.

PETER TRAVERS - October 8, 2009

Schoolgirl Jenny is 16 and a virgin. Sophisticated David is twice her age and ready to pounce. The time is 1961. The place is England just before it learned to swing. So begins An Education; a quiet miracle of a movie that quickly disabuses you of the idea that you've seen it all before.

Prepare to be wowed by Carey Mulligan, whose sensational, starmaking performance as Jenny ignited film festivals from Sundance to Toronto. The incandescent Mulligan, 24, is a major find who makes Jenny's…

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