An Education

Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.

Release Date: Oct. 9

Director: Lone Scherfig

Writers: Nick Hornby (based on a memoir by Lynn Barber)

Cinematographer: John de Borman

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper

Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 95 mins.

Sherfig and Hornby telegraph instead of relying on talented cast

It’s been said many times that 50 percent of a movie director’s job is casting, and An Education makes that case nicely. The film has star power behind the camera, with Lone Scherfig directing and Nick Hornby writing the screenplay, but the film’s nuance comes from its two lead actors—relative newcomer Carey Mulligan and the ever-reliable Peter Sarsgaard—who enrich a conventional story that, otherwise, runs on little more than air.

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