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It's 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30- ish David. Urbane and witty, David introduces Jenny to a glittering new world of classical concerts and late-night suppers. Just as the family's long-held dream of getting their brilliant daughter into Oxford seems within reach, Jenny is tempted by another kind of life. Will David be the making of Jenny or her undoing?

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An Education

By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Posted 10/22/2009

Disarming and unexpectedly poignant, An Education contrasts the knowledge learned inx school with that learned from life. The pupil in question is Jenny, a 16-year-old honors student circa 1961 at a girls' prep school in Twickenham, a middle-class London suburb, who is destined for Oxford. » Read more

MPAA rating:

PG-13

for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking

Cast:

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

Directed by:

Lone Scherfig

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