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An Education

Originally Posted: 17 November 2012 IMDB:  7.3/10 Rotten Tomatoes:  94% Roger Ebert:  4/4 Stars Stars:  Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson. Written By:  Nick Hornby(screenplay), Lynn Barbor(memoir) Directed By:   Lone Scherfig Release Date:  8 October 2009 Described by IMDB as:  " In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her ...