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Mona Lisa Smile Movie Rating:  Predictable Stuff | |
| Art history professor Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) lands the job of her dreams when posh Wellesley College hires her for the 1953-54 school year. But she quickly finds that the college is little more than a finishing school for pampered girls who aspire solely to marriage and motherhood. Katherine creates a scandal when she tries to motivate her students to want more, with a curriculum mixing modern art and feminism. | |
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Though the feminist angle does offer something new to a genre that
is usually set in boys' schools, this wan drama suffers from both over-familiarity
and predictability. Roberts is too dour a presence to be convincing as anyone's inspiration, but her younger co-stars are a lively bunch, particularly Maggie Gyllenhaal as a free-spirited bohemian. |
Julia Roberts.©2003 Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures. |
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