Learning to Drive (Learning to Drive)
Directed by: Isabel CoixetCast list: Patricia Clarkson (Wendy), Ben Kingsley (Darwan), Grace Gummer (Tasha), Jake Weber (Ted)
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Genres: Romantic / Comedy-drama /
Runtime: 105 min.
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Wendy, a self-absorbed New York book critic, is shocked to reality by the sudden end of her marriage. Always dependent on her husband for driving, she must now learn to take the wheel on her own. Her instructor Darwan is a Sikh Indian who watches with alarm as his pupil falls apart at the seams. He himself is contemplating an arranged marriage with a woman he has never met. As these two lives intersect, both will change in unpredictable ways.
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Subjects: English language / Religion / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / women (and/or violence against women) / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / world of work, employment relationships / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships /
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