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says Lone. Still. Where would we be without the press?
     
    In the evening, Carey, Amanda, Finola and I go to see another film, and then attend yet another party. I think I have been to more parties here than in the whole of 2008. By now it’s obvious that things have gone much better for us than we dared hope: the reviews we’ve seen have been unbelievable (one of the first, on the normally snarky ‘LA gossip rag’ Defamer.com , I wouldn’t have dared write myself), the film is almost certainly going to sell for a decent amount, and to cap it all, here I am giving Uma Thur-man a light. I don’t have a lighter, so I hand her my cigarette. (I can only just reach - she’s about a metre taller than me.)
    ‘If you can live with the intimacy that implies,’ she says.
    And then I woke up.
    I am always on the verge of giving up smoking, but my habit has resulted in my meeting both Uma (as I now think of her) and Kurt Vonnegut. Where’s the incentive?
     
    Amanda and Finola sign an agreement with Sony Picture Classics in the Virgin lounge at the San Francisco airport. When we get home we are told that An Education won the Audience Award and a prize for John de Borman’s cinematography. Nothing from the Danish juror, though.

CAST AND CREW
    Cast (in order of appearance)
     
    Jenny CAREY MULLIGAN
Miss Stubbs OLIVIA WILLIAMS
Jack ALFRED MOLINA
Marjorie CARA SEYMOUR
Graham MATTHEW BEARD
David PETER SARSGAARD
Hattie AMANDA FAIRBANK-HYNES
Tina ELLIE KENDRICK
Danny DOMINIC COOPER
Helen ROSAMUND PIKE
Headmistress EMMA THOMPSON
Sarah SALLY HAWKINS
Nightclub Singer BETH ROWLEY
    BBC FILMS PRESENTS
     
    IN ASSOCIATION WITH ENDGAME ENTERTAINMENT
     
    A WILDGAZE FILMS / FINOLA DWYER PRODUCTION
     
    A FILM BY LONE SCHERFIG
     
    Casting Director LUCY BEVAN Line Producer CAROLINE LEVY Music Supervisor KLE SAVIDGE
    Makeup & Hair Designer LIZZIE YIANNI GEORGIOU Costume Designer ODILE DICKS-MIREAUX
    Music by PAUL ENGLISHBY
    Editor BARNEY PILLING
    Production Designer ANDREW MCALPINE Director of Photography JOHN DE BORMAN BSC Executive Producers JAMES D. STERN, DOUGLAS E.
    HANSEN, WENDY JAPHET, DAVID M. THOMPSON, JAMIE LAURENSON, NICK HORNBY
    Based on a Memoir by LYNN BARBER
    Screenplay by NICK HORNBY
    Produced by FINOLA DWYER & AMANDA POSEY Directed by LONE SCHERFIG

AN EDUCATION:
    The Screenplay

1 INTERIOR: SCHOOL - DAY
    Montage: A nice girls’ school in a south-west London suburb.We see girls doing what girls did in a nice girls’ school in 1961: walking with books on their heads, practising their handwriting, making cakes, playing lacrosse, dancing with each other.

2 INTERIOR: CLASS ROOM - DAY
    In one of the classrooms, MISS STUBBS, an attractive, bright, animated schoolteacher, is talking to a small group of sixteen-year-old girls. Some of these girls seem to be daydreaming - looking out of the window, examining their fingernails. A couple, including a bespectacled girl (ANN), who looks five years younger than everyone else in the class, write down everything the teacher says. Only one, JENNY, beautiful and as animated as her teacher, seems to be listening in the spirit in which MISS STUBBS would like her to listen. She’s smiling, eyes shining - she loves MISS STUBBS and these lessons. MISS STUBBS asks a question and looks at the girls for a response.
     
    MISS STUBBS
    Anybody? . . .
    JENNY puts up her hand - the only person in class to do so.
    Anybody else? . . .
    No one else reacts.
    (mock-sighing)
    Yes. Jenny . . .
     
    JENNY
    Isn’t it because Mr Rochester’s blind?

3 INTERIOR: JENNY’S HOUSE - DAY
    Title: TWICKENHAM, LONDON 1961
    JENNY , her mother and her father are finishing Sunday lunch. Jenny’s father, JACK, is in his forties; MARJORIE , her mother, is slightly younger than JACK , but every bit as middle-aged.The food is grey and brown, in keeping with the colour scheme of the house.They aren’t talking - they’re listening to Mantovani on the radio. JENNY gets up from the lunch table.
     
    JENNY
    I’ve got an