
Overview
Genre
DramaRelease Date
October 09, 2009 (Limited)MPAA Rating
PG-13Duration
95 min.Studio
Sony Pictures ClassicsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Lone ScherfigProducer
Finola Dwyer, Amanda PoseyScreenwriter
Nick HornbyStarring
- Carey Mulligan as Jenny
- Peter Sarsgaard as David
- Dominic Cooper as Danny
- Emma Thompson as Headmistress
- Alfred Molina as Jack
- Rosamund Pike as Helen
- Olivia Williams as Miss Stubbs
- Sally Hawkins as Sarah
- Matthew Beard
- Cara Seymour
Story
"An Education" is the story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in 1961 London, a city caught between the drab, post-war 1950s and the glamorous, more liberated decade to come.
Jenny (Carey Mulligan) stands on the brink of becoming a woman: a brilliantly witty and attractive 16-year-old whose suburban life is about to be blown apart by the utterly unsuitable 30-something David (Peter Sarsgaard).
Urbane and witty, David manages to charm her conservative parents Jack (Alfred Molina) and Marjorie (Cara Seymour). David introduces Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers with his attractive friend and business partner, Danny (Dominic Cooper) and Danny's girlfriend, the beautiful but vacuous Helen (Rosamund Pike). Just as Jenny's family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life.







