8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
An Education (2009)
An Education (2009)
Overview
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Judaism: Negative
Viewer Rating
8.0
Overview
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film explores a young woman's moral choices and personal growth, critiquing the allure of superficiality and affirming the importance of traditional education and individual responsibility, leading to a neutral rating as it avoids explicit promotion of a specific political ideology.
The movie features traditional casting that aligns with its 1960s London setting, without intentional race or gender swaps. Its narrative focuses on individual choices and societal pressures of the era, rather than explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on broader diversity, equity, and inclusion themes.
Secondary
The film's central deceptive characters, David and his associates, are portrayed as Jewish. Their actions, including bigamy and illegal dealings, are depicted negatively, and the narrative offers no counterbalancing positive portrayal or nuance of Jewish individuals or the faith itself, thus associating problematic traits with the only depicted adherents.
The film 'An Education' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a young woman's heterosexual relationships and educational aspirations in 1960s London, resulting in no depiction of queer identity.
The film "An Education" focuses on a young woman's coming-of-age story in 1960s London, exploring themes of education, class, and relationships. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative, thus the portrayal is not applicable to this evaluation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "An Education" is an adaptation of a memoir by Lynn Barber. All significant characters are portrayed with genders consistent with their real-life counterparts or the source material, with no instances of a character established as one gender being portrayed as another.
The film is an adaptation of a memoir set in 1960s London. All significant characters, based on their real-life counterparts and the historical context, are portrayed by actors of the same race, with no instances of a character established as one race being depicted as another.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
6.9
Critic Ratings
9.3
8.5
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