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Mona Lisa Smile
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Kathryn Watson is an ambitious woman who leads a new ambition towards the dissemination of meaningful art. After Catherine graduated recently at the University of California, she hired to teach the history of real art at Wellesley's prestigious Women's College in 1953. Katharine began her mission to confront old society norms that seemed to be uninspiring and opposed to art. Catherine is attracting her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to embark on a new challenge to the application of art in this prestigious college.
Kathryn Watson is an ambitious woman who leads a new ambition towards the dissemination of meaningful art. After Catherine graduated recently at the University of California, she hired to teach the history of real art at Wellesley's prestigious Women's College in 1953. Katharine began her mission to confront old society norms that seemed to be uninspiring and opposed to art. Catherine is attracting her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to embark on a new challenge to the application of art in this prestigious college.
Actors:
Devon Jencks,
John D. Fowler,
Michele Hillen,
Terence Rigby,
Lindsey White,
Richard Jones,
Rob Buntzen,
Gunna Wilson,
Denise Zadroga,
Tori Amos,
Canedy Knowles,
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Devon Jencks
John D. Fowler
Michele Hillen
Terence Rigby
2 January 1937, Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
Lindsey White
Richard Jones
Rob Buntzen
Gunna Wilson
Denise Zadroga
Tori Amos
22 August 1963, Newton, North Carolina, USA
Canedy Knowles
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
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Mike Newell directs a formulaic Roberts vehicle that isn't without its charm.
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Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal furnish well-observed performances that frequently outshine Julia Roberts's reflex characterization in this female variant of "Dead Poets Society."
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Women of the Fifties, rise up in protest.
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September 20, 2004
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Like the turtleneck cashmere sweaters and girdles that tie down these promising women, the movie is trite and trussed.
January 10, 2004
Roberts asks her students rhetorical questions: What makes art good or bad? Who decides? But the movie answers them as canonically as the syllabus Roberts abandons.
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Glossy entertainment value but far from art.