An Education

2.50
    An Education
    2009

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Carey MulliganJenny Mellor
    • Peter SarsgaardDavid Goldman
    • Dominic CooperDanny
    • Rosamund PikeHelen
    • Olivia WilliamsMiss Stubbs
    • Alfred MolinaJack Mellor
    • Cara SeymourMajorie
    • Sally HawkinsSarah Goldman
    • Emma ThompsonHeadmistress
    • James NortonStudent

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Salon

      An Education captures the very limited possibilities for female liberation in early-'60s London -- with massive social change on the distant horizon, but not here yet -- in exquisite detail.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      Afterward, you'll want to listen to the Beatles sing ''She's Leaving Home.'' It might be a girl like Jenny the lads had in mind.
    • 91

      The A.V. Club

      An Education shares with Hornby’s best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper-verbal young people let the music, films, books, and art they love define themselves as they figure out who they are and what they want to be.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Topped by a fine cast, a first-rate script by Nick Hornby and tight direction by Lone Scherfig, the film is a smart, moving but not inaccessible entry in the coming-of-age canon.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      An Education is remarkable for the traps it doesn't fall into. Jenny, for all her naive impulses, isn't a victim.
    • 80

      Variety

      Carey Mulligan shines in a captivating performance.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Something of a deceptively packaged Oscar-season bonbon--a seemingly benign, classily directed year-I-became-a-woman nostalgia trip that conceals a surprisingly tart, morally ambiguous center.
    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      For all its original touches, though, An Education follows a conventional trajectory.

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