An Education
An education isn't always by the book.
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- Drama
- Romance
Media
Overview
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Keywords
- love affair
- parent child relationship
- woman director
- love
- teenage life
- family
- age difference
- love and romance
- coming of age
- adolescence
- cautionary
- based on memoir or autobiography
- self-discovery
- teaching the ways of the world
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 29, 2009
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Endgame Entertainment,BBC Film,Wildgaze Films
- Cast
- Carey Mulligan,Peter Sarsgaard,Dominic Cooper,Rosamund Pike,Olivia Williams,Alfred Molina,Cara Seymour,Sally Hawkins,Emma Thompson,James Nortonand 19 more
- Director
- Lone Scherfig
- Writer
- Nick Hornby,Lynn Barber
- Producer
- Amanda Posey,Finola Dwyer,James D. Stern,Wendy Japhet,David M. Thompson,Jamie Laurenson,Nick Hornby,Douglas Hansen
- Cinematography
- John de Borman
- Music
- Paul Englishby
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $26,096,852
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt1174732