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Mona Lisa Smile received mixed to negative reviews from film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 34% approval rating based on 152 reviews, with an average score of 4.9/10 and a consensus: "Though Mona Lisa Smile espouses the value of breaking barriers, the movie itself is
Mona Lisa Smile: Directed by Mike Newell. With Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal. A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.
Though Mona Lisa Smile espouses the value of breaking barriers, the movie itself is predictable and safe. Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at ...
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. Neither were the screenwriters, who reportedly based their screenplay on Hillary Clinton's experience at Wellesley in the early 1960s. The film shows a school which teaches, above all, that a woman's duty is to stand by her man, and if Clinton ...
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.
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. On the first day, her class fails under the leadership of the arrogant ...
Mona Lisa Smile This funny, uplifting film stars Julia Roberts as an art history professor with a lot to teach about life -- and much to learn about love. 2,528 IMDb 6.5 1 h 59 min 2003
