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Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Mona Lisa Smile: Directed by Mike Newell. With Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College.
In 1953, the women of Wellesley College are measured by how well they marry -- until the arrival of a professor who threatens to upend the status quo. Watch trailers & learn more.
Mona Lisa Smile. Drama. 117 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2003. Roger Ebert. December 19, 2003. 4 min read. I find it hard to believe that Wellesley College was as reactionary in the autumn of 1953 as “Mona Lisa Smile” says it is — but then I wasn’t there.
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In 1953, free spirited and non-orthodox art history teacher Katherine Ann Watson accepts the challenge of teaching in the conservative Wellesley College. She leaves her boy-friend Paul Moore in California and share a house with the teacher Nancy Abbey and the nurse Amanda.
1953 America was a time ripe for change for women and when Katherine Ann Watson (Julia Roberts) arrives to teach Art History at Wellesley College, she finds the institution drowning in outdated...
