In
1953 Paramount Studios---a big Hollywood movie studio--starred an
unknown actress, Audrey Hepburn, opposite Gregory Peck, a big Hollywood
star in the movie "A Roman Holiday" directed by a big Hollywood
director, William Wyler. Hepburn went on to win an Oscar for Best actress for her role and became and International star.

In
2010 a releasing company, Sony Picture Classics, starred an unknown
actress, Carey Mulligan, (above) in  a small English movie, An
Education", directed by Lone  Scherfig, not really in the top ten of directors, with recognizable actors with one being an A listed star---Emma Thompson in a cameo--and the others all fine actors but hardly being 'names'. WithMryle Streep and Sandra Bullock though Carey Mulligan well deserves her nomination
for an Oscar as Best Actress I am afraid she won't follow in Hepburn's
footsteps just because of the timing more than anything else. competition such as

Carey
plays a smart 16 year old, Jenny, who is destined to go to Oxford
supported by her father who feels his daughter needs to get the best
education she can. Though Jenny is on track she wants another
education, an education on and about life and loves everything French,
not to forget that she has planned to lose her virginity on her 17thSarsgaard, who is a charming con man and not all he seems to be, along with his friends Danny (Dominic Cooper) and Helen (Rosamund Pike.) Jenny's
parents, played by Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour, almost seem to be
taken in by David's charm and appear to be pushing their daughter into
his arms. Though childish in his charm the audience has to put aside
that David is almost twice her age and is, basically, a predator. birthday. Along comes David, played by Peter

This 'small' English movie, an adaption by Nick Hornby, nominated for an Oscar for his writing, of a memoir by Lynn Barber, is a charming romantic comedy with fine acting by all including Olivia Williams as one of Jenny's concerned teachers. Both Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina deserved Oscar nominations but it was not to be.

Though not a 'must see' movie it is
definitely worth seeing for the excellent leading performances plus the
supporting cast and the story