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Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard in "An Education."An EducationBY ROGER EBERT / October 21, 2009 | cast & creditsJenny Carey Mulligan

David Peter Sarsgaard

Jack Alfred Molina

Marjorie Cara Seymour

Headmistress Emma Thompson

Sony Pictures Classics presents a film directed by Lone Scherfig. Written by Nick Hornby, based on a memoir by Lynn Barber. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving sexual content and for smoking).

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"An Education" tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who is the target of a sophisticated seduction by a 35-year-old man. This happens in 1961, when 16-year-old girls were a great deal less knowing than they are now. Yet the movie isn't shabby or painful, but romantic and wonderfully entertaining.It depends on a British actress named Carey Mulligan, who in her first major feature role is being compared by everyone withAudrey Hepburn. When you see her, you can't think of anyone else to compare her with. She makes the role luminous when it could have been sad or awkward. She has such lightness and grace, you're pretty sure this is the birth of a star.

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