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Set in 1953, Katherine Watson joins the staff at Wellesley College, a prestigious 'women-only' school. Katherine becomes determined to make her pupils confront the social mores of the time and lead the lives they want to live rather than the ones society expects them to.

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EAN5035822480339

eBay Product ID (ePID)30484023

Product Key Features

ActorDonna Mitchell, Julia Stiles, Marian Seldes, John Slattery, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Terence Rigby, Dominic West, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Ginnifer Goodwin, Laura Allen, Juliet Stevenson, Marcia Gay Harden

Film/TV TitleMona Lisa Smile

DirectorMike Newell

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Croatian\Dutch\English\Greek\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Romanian\Serbian\Slovene

Run Time114 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2011

FormatDVD

FeaturesArt Forum Featurette\College Then And Now Featurette\What Women Wanted 1953 Featurette\Filmographies\Elton John Music Video The Heart Of Every Girl\Theatrical Trailer, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

ComposerRachel Portman

Production DesignerJane Musky

Additional InformationMike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts is Katherine Watson, a revolutionary art history teacher at Wellesley College in 1953. Though she has true admiration for her intelligent all-female students, she is perturbed that their interest in finding husbands takes precedence over their studies. Determined to instruct them in feminist values and teach them to be independent--defying the college's emphasis on breeding good wives, mothers, and homemakers--Watson is deemed subversive by the administration. Even Watson's identity--from California, over 30 years old, and unmarried--is problematic. And when she turns her class onto modern art rather than teaching the recommended classical curriculum, Watson is severely chastised by the staunchly conservative students and faculty.<BR>Beautiful photography of the picture-perfect Wellesley campus combined with a perpetual parade of lovely period costumes makes MONA LISA SMILE a visual delight. Strong performances by each of the actresses, including Dunst uncharacteristically cast as a prim and proper prude, and Marcia Gay Harden as a boring tv-addicted spinster, only add to the splendour of this enjoyable film.

ReviewsCosmopolitan - ...See this wonderful film and feel inspired...

ScreenwriterLawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal

Dubbing LanguagesHungarian

Format DescriptionDVD 9

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleMona Lisa Smile

Director of PhotographyAnastas Michos

Consumer AdviceContains moderate sex references

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