Catalog - The City Library

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.

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.

Coming-of-age films.

Romance films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.