Mead Public Library (Sheboygan)

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

An education [videorecording (DVD)] / 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.) : sound, color ; 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.

Audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic material involving sexual content, and for smoking.

Cast

Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan.

Notes:

Title from container.

Based on the memoir by Lynn Barber.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.

Special features: Commentary; featurette; deleted scenes; more.

Director of photography, John de Borman ; editor, Barney Pilling ; music, Paul Englishby.

DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

English dialogue, French subtitles; closed-captioned.