An Education

Resource Information

The work An Education represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

An Education

Statement of responsibility

Sony Pictures Classics ; BBC Films presents a Finola Dwyer Productions/Wildgaze Films production in association with Endgame Entertainment ; a film by Lone Sherfig ; screenplay by Nick Hornby ; produced by Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey ; directed by Lone Scherfig

Creator

• Education (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Sarsgaard, Peter
• BBC Films
• Endgame Entertainment (Firm)
• Finola Dwyer Productions
• Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Wildgaze Films
• Barber, Lynn, 1944-
• Beard, Matthew, 1989-
• Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
• De Borman, John
• Dicks-Mireaux, Odile
• Dwyer, Finola
• Englishby, Paul
• Fairbank-Hynes, Amanda
• Hansen, Douglas E., (Doug)
• Hawkins, Sally, 1976-
• Hornby, Nick
• Japhet, Wendy
• Kendrick, Ellie, 1990-
• Laurenson, Jamie
• McAlpine, Andrew
• Molina, Alfred, 1953-
• Mulligan, Carey, 1985-
• Pike, Rosamund, 1979-
• Pilling, Barney
• Posey, Amanda
• Scherfig, Lone, 1959-
• Seymour, Cara
• Stern, James D.
• Thompson, David, 1950 July 18-
• Thompson, Emma
• Williams, Olivia, 1968-

Actor

• Fairbank-Hynes, Amanda
• Mulligan, Carey, 1985-
• Thompson, Emma
• Sarsgaard, Peter
• Beard, Matthew, 1989-
• Williams, Olivia, 1968-
• Molina, Alfred, 1953-
• Hawkins, Sally, 1976-
• Pike, Rosamund, 1979-
• Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
• Kendrick, Ellie, 1990-
• Seymour, Cara

Actor

• Pike, Rosamund, 1979-
• Seymour, Cara
• Dicks-Mireaux, Odile
• Williams, Olivia, 1968-
• Thompson, Emma
• Kendrick, Ellie, 1990-
• Hawkins, Sally, 1976-
• Fairbank-Hynes, Amanda
• Beard, Matthew, 1989-
• Cooper, Dominic, 1978-
• Sarsgaard, Peter
• Mulligan, Carey, 1985-
• Molina, Alfred, 1953-

Screenwriter

• Hornby, Nick

Composer

• Englishby, Paul

Cinematographer

• De Borman, John

Costume designer

• Dicks-Mireaux, Odile

Director of photography

• De Borman, John

Director

• Scherfig, Lone, 1959-

Designer

• McAlpine, Andrew

Editor of moving image work

• Pilling, Barney

Film director

• Scherfig, Lone, 1959-

Film producer

• Thompson, David, 1950 July 18-
• Posey, Amanda
• Hornby, Nick
• Dwyer, Finola
• Hansen, Douglas E., (Doug)
• Stern, James D.
• Japhet, Wendy
• Laurenson, Jamie

Film editor

• Pilling, Barney

Presenter

• BBC Films
• Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)

Producer

• Laurenson, Jamie
• Hansen, Douglas E., (Doug)
• Hornby, Nick
• Japhet, Wendy
• Posey, Amanda
• Thompson, David, 1950 July 18-
• Stern, James D.
• Dwyer, Finola

Production company

• Finola Dwyer Productions
• Wildgaze Films
• Endgame Entertainment (Firm)

Production designer

• McAlpine, Andrew

Publisher

• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Hornby, Nick

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Films d'amour
• Films de fiction
• Films de passage à l'âge adulte
• Foreign films
• Historical films
• Longs métrages
• Man-woman relationships
• Man-woman relationships -- England | London -- Drama
• May-December romances
• May-December romances -- England -- Drama
• Relations amoureuses intergénérationnelles -- Angleterre
• Relations entre hommes et femmes -- Angleterre | Londres
• Romance -- Feature
• Romance films
• Romance films
• Romance films
• Romances
• Swindlers and swindling
• Swindlers and swindling -- England | London -- Drama
• Teenage girls
• Teenage girls -- England | London -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Vidéos pour handicapés auditifs
• Adaptation -- Feature
• Adolescentes -- Angleterre | Londres
• Barber, Lynn, 1944-
• Barber, Lynn, 1944-
• Barber, Lynn, 1944- -- Adaptations cinématographiques
• Coming-of-age films
• Coming-of-age films
• Coming-of-age films
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Dropouts -- England -- Drama
• England
• England -- London
• Escroqueries -- Angleterre | Londres
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- Great Britain
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films

Genre

• Historical films
• Foreign films
• Film adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Drama
• DVD-Video discs
• Coming-of-age films
• Adaptations cinématographiques
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Romances
• Romance films
• Romance
• Adaptation

Language

• eng
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

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

Awards note

Film awards for British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Best Leading Actress (Mulligan), 2010; Winner: Audience award, Sundance Film Festival, 2009

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Costume designer, Odile Dicks-Mireaux ; editor, Barney Pilling ; production designer, Andrew McAlpine ; music, Paul Englishby ; director of photography, John de Borman ; executive producers, James D. Stern, Douglas E. Hansen, Wendy Japhet, David M. Thompson, Jamie Laurenson, Nick Hornby

Intended audience

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

Language note

English dialogue with optional French or English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

PerformerNote

Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Cara Seymour, Sally Hawkins, Ellie Kendrick, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Matthew Beard, Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan

Runtime

100

Technique

live action