You might try LETTER TO BREZHNEV or BLONDE FIST. Both come out of Liverpool, as did Rita herself, I think. Incidentally, what are the grounds for thinking of EDUCATING RITA as a Hollywood film, as Harriet Margolis suggests? Is it just money? From here, it looks and sounds very British. But then we old colonisers are getting used to our new lives as the colonised... I shan't be at this desk for ten days or so, so if this starts a debate that will explain my not contributing to it for a while. John Izod Film & Media Studies University of Stirling