Nominated for three Academy Awards, An Education was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 30, 2010, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The movie, which grossed $9.6 million in a limited run in theaters, is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s suburban London. Carey Mulligan (The Greatest) stars as a teen who gets involved with a man twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard, Knight and Day). Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer), Alfred Molina (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and Rosamund Pike (Made in Dagenham) also are in the cast.
An Education was nominated for Oscars in Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby, About a Boy), Best Actress (Mulligan) and Best Picture, but didn’t take home any statues. Mulligan’s performance did, however, win a Best Leading Actress BAFTA award (the British equivalent of the Oscars), while the film was nominated for seven more.
The film is based on the memoir
Sony priced the DVD at $28.96 and Blu-ray $38.96. Both include these special features:
- deleted scenes
- making-of featurette
- featurette “Walking the Red Carpet”
- commentary with director Lone Scherfig (Just Like Home), Mulligan and Sarsgaard.
Check out the movie’s trailer:
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I have to admit to a terrible lack of discipline in “keeping up” with movies and tend to rent or buy them rather than go to the cinema, so I’m always far behind, and so far this year have seen only two of the 10 Oscar nominees, this one and District 9, both of which I enjoyed very much if for quite different reasons. I saw An Education as an in-flight movie on a cross-country flight, the intimacy of the personal screen suited it well. This is a simple but well crafted, and very well acted story of a high-school girl in early 1960s London who becomes involved with an older man, and is abetted by her well meaning but socially ambitious parents, at the risk of losing out on her ability to apply to university. The time-setting is interesting because it’s pre-rock’n’roll youth culture, and young people then strove to appear older and more sophisticated. Carey Mulligan, who plays the girl, is just perfect. A lot has been made of the creepiness of a guy in his mid-30s romancing a 16 year old girl, but the anti-Semitism of some of the adult figures is equally creepy. It’s refreshing to see a period movie that’s attentive to detail but not nostalgic.