Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
An education [videorecording] / a Sony Pictures Classics release, BBC Films presents a Wildgaze Films/Finola Dwyer Productions in association with Endgame Entertainment ; produced by Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey ; written by Nick Hornby ; directed by Lone Scherfig.
Call Number:
DVD E
Publisher, Date:
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2010]
Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking.
Subjects:
University of Oxford -- Drama.
Teenage girls -- England -- London -- Drama.
Dropouts -- England -- Drama.
May-December romances -- England -- Drama.
Swindlers and swindling -- England -- London -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- England -- London -- Drama.
Closed caption DVDs.
Drama DVDs.
Genre:
Coming-of-age films.
Romance films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Other Author:
Dwyer, Finola.
Posey, Amanda.
Hornby, Nick.
Scherfig, Lone, 1959-
Sarsgaard, Peter.
Molina, Alfred, 1953-
Pike, Rosamund, 1979-
Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
Williams, Olivia, 1968-
Thompson, Emma.
Mulligan, Carey, 1985-
Englishby, Paul.
Barber, Lynn. Education.
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
BBC Films.
Wildgaze Films (Firm)
Finola Dwyer Produtions (Firm)
Endgame Entertainment (Firm)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)