See About archive blog posts. Soon after actor Alfred Molina started reading John Logan’s new play, “Red,” he was hooked. “By Page 21, I knew I had to do it,” Molina recalls.

Release Date: Oct. 9 Director: Lone Scherfig Cinematographer: John de Borman Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Dominic Cooper Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 95 mins.

Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom, left, and Berlin Silver Bear winner Sally Hawkins have signed up to join the cast of Lone Scherfig's "An Education," producers said Wednesday.

In An Education, he takes an affable turn as Jack, an aspirant patriarch in 1960s England who’s set on his precocious high-schooler daughter Jenny (Carey Mulligan) going to Oxford.