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"An Education" is set in 1961 in England. The country is in a transitional phase - still shedding the last of the deprivations of the post-World War II years, but also seeing the first signs of the coming revolution.

There is "Oscar buzz" in Hollywood for the performance of rising young star Carey Mulligan as a teenager learning some life lessons in a bittersweet film written by English novelist Nick Hornby and directed by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig.

A good 'Education' Today is the last day to catch An Education , the well-reviewed British film about a teenage girl in the '60s who falls for a man twice her age, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

The director of "An Education" recently lamented, good-naturedly, that she was tired of producers thinking of her for stereotypically female projects.

Shia LaBeouf has reportedly found new love in his Wall Street 2 co-star Carey Mulligan.

GOERS will return to school life in the 1960s when An Education is shown in Clevedon this week.

MOVIEWEB.COM Carey Mulligan gives a star-making performance as Jenny in "An Education." REVIEW **** out of **** 'An Education' Rated: PG-13 Running time: 1:35 Director: Lone Scherfig Showing: Lynwood , Rose MOVIEWEB.COM David teaches Jenny about sleepovers, adult-style, and that bananas are a valuable source of potassium.

Should nurses have to qualify with a degree? Is it about the care of the job or the qualification, you decide.

It's raining. She's getting drenched waiting for the bus. And then he shows up, charming, inviting, chivalrous even.

Happy Friday the 13th! Walk under a ladder, hang out with a black cat, and see some movies.

A star is born and Carey Mulligan is her name. She's in her early twenties, but convincingly plays a 16-year-old in An Education.

Release Date: October 9, 2009 ; currently playing in wider release in select cities Rating: PG-13 Genre: Drama/Romance Run Time: 95 min.

Caption: Carey Mulligan , Dominic Cooper and Emma Thompson Premiere of 'An Education' BFI 53rd London Film Festival London, England .... MULLIGAN: 'KNIGHTLEY IS MY BEST FRIEND' CAREY MULLIGAN counts KEIRA KNIGHTLEY as one of her dearest pals - even though she fell for her PRIDE & PREJUDICE co-star's beau RUPERT FRIEND on the film's set.

With Lionsgate understandably basking in the glow of this weekend's $1.8-million, $100,000-per-screen, record-shattering opening of "Precious," the already stratospheric Oscar buzz is likely to soar even higher.

WHEN: Tomorrow, 2pm. TEENAGER Jenny is about to embark on an Oxford education when her head is turned by the charismatic David, who introduces her to a world of late-night bars, classical concerts and art auctions.

"An Education," the story of a London teenager's coming of age in the epoch just before the Beatles, stars Carey Mulligan.

Rating: PG for scary sequences and images. What it's about: A bitter old miser learns to give his cash and himself to others after ghosts show him the consequences of his stinginess.

Wes Anderson's take on Roald Dahl is full of quirky magic - with a sly George Clooney voicing Mr Fox.

I thought An Education would be terribly worthy. I bought my ticket, thinking that it would probably be quite well made, and looking forward to seeing Carey Mulligan's star making turn.

'An Education,' with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike, Emma Thompson.