Mona Lisa Smile

USA 2003, 114 minutes
Dir. Mike Newell
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Drama / Youth

Feat. Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliet Stevenson

Aroview: Julia Roberts is restrained and fairly effective in this Ivy-League drama, set at the renowned Wellesley College in the 1950s, where she attempts to teach a class over-achieving teenagers a thing or two about art.

Unfortunately her young proteges are an intimidating bunch, Dunst in particular, who puts aside her own sympathetic persona to play a budding blue-blood bitch. Despite the acting firepower, and a reliably dramatic storyline, its thematic agendas never quite get those finishing brushstrokes.

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2 stars (Good Try) There is an attractive casting plus the admirable work by the wardrobe, make-up and hairdo departments do justice to the time and place. ~Tubbs