Educating Rita

Tom Cruise was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for this movie.

He lost to Michael Caine for Educating Rita.

When the teacher shows up in Risky Business, I was like, because I thought it was Michael Caine,

but it wasn't.

...

Educating Rita.

Again, your answer may have inspired my answer.

Gene Hackman.

The Snape guy, Professor Snape.

Dr. Frank Bryan from Educating Rita, whatever that is.

Mr. Collins from The Wonder Years.

The lady who's in McGogginal from Harry Potter.

Number two, Julie Walters.

Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in Educating Rita.

She appeared in many other films, including Personal Services, Prick Up Your Ears, Buster, Stepping Out, Sister, My Sister, Girls' Night, and Billy Elliot.

She had a major role in Mamma Mia!, which is Mothers and Daughters Galore.

My Fair Lady, all of that, Sound of Music.

It was a daily thing in our homes, with other things that we probably shouldn't be watching, like Love Story, Educating Rita, stuff like that.

I just remember from childhood, The Champ.

But the musicals stuck with us.

um you know he does the famous shouting uh i'll learn a lot of his films and uh he tends to have a big chip on his shoulder which is why he's perfect as the character in the len dayton spy books of the 60s you know when he plays harry palmer as he's called in the films but not in the books um he's great at those but he does have to sort of shout a lot and this is not that kind of role um he's much more conflicted and much more interior But by this point in his career, he's very good at that sort of role.

Anybody who just seen him in Educating Rita 20 years earlier would know that.

So here I think he's he's got a fantastic role and he's fantastic in it.

I think he's really good.

Assonance is kind of like a rhyme, only not quite.

Um, as, as they put it in, was it Educating Rita? The...

Was it that movie? Uh, starred Michael Caine.

Uh, assonance is when the rhyme doesn't work.