Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.
- hairdresser
- literature professor
- based on play or musical
- university
- alcoholic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jeananne Crowley — Julia
- Malcolm Douglas — Denny
- Godfrey Quigley — Rita's Father
- Dearbhla Molloy — Elaine
- Kim Fortune — Collins
- Pat Daly — Bursar
- Philip Hurd-Wood — Tiger
- Christopher Casson — Professor
- Hilary Reynolds — Lesley
- Jack Walsh — Price
- Rosamund Burton — Denise
- Directed
- Lewis Gilbert
- Written
- Willy Russell
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 210 ratings
- Studio
- Acorn Pictures, The Rank Organisation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
