Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.4 / 5.0

The feel-good movie of the year for women.:

The "Mona Lisa Smile", directed by Mike Newell, is a story about women in society during the 1950s, when they were expected to become educated and then get married and become a mother.

PLOT SUMMARY: Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) portrays a single woman in the 1950s who, freshly graduated from graduate school, gets a job working as an Art History professor at the exclusive Wellesley College for women in Massachusetts. Katherine is shocked when she learns her students have already fulfilled the... more info

SOLID 3 STARS:

Maybe director Mike Newell was at a Hollywood cocktail party starring Julia Roberts and through bleary-eyes decided that a movie should be made about her "Mona Lisa smile." But Roberts doesn't have a Mona Lisa's smile. Leonardo DaVinci painted Mona Lisa's smile as subtle, enigmatic, and mysterious, suggesting some secret knowledge just below the surface. Roberts' smile is wide and toothy, projecting a warm personality that bubbles right over the surface. Not that one's better than the other. Rather, to say... more info

Empowering:

This was an empowering film to me. I loved how Julia Roberts' character, Katherine Watson, challenged these women into different ways of thinking. She helped them all to see what potential they have and that they didn't have to fit a binary of a woman in the 50s. Watson challenged every idea that these women were brought up with: the ideas that a woman's role was to serve her husband and keep house and home. Watson was a teacher ahead of her time and the fact that Julia Roberts played her character allowed... more info

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