Mona Lisa Smile

Theatrical Release Date: 2003 12 19 (USA)

UPC: 043396100756

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Sexual Situations, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint comes during a less-progressive time that finds most of her students -- among them Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst), Joan Brandwyn (Julia Stiles), and Giselle Levy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) -- more interested in nabbing a good husband than achieving scholastic and intellectual growth. Watson challenges her students and the Wellesley faculty to think outside of the current mores of the community and redefine what it means to be a success; meanwhile, she tries to come to terms with her own heart's desires. Mona Lisa Smile co-stars Marcia Gay Harden, Juliet Stevenson, and, as Watson's conflicting love interests, Dominic West and John Slattery. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Song – null Best Song – null Best Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

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Mona Lisa Smile

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 03/09/2004

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 119 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Start [1:08]
2. Katherine Watson [3:39]
3. Nancy Abbey [1:15]
4. History of Art 100 [7:45]
5. Amanda Armstrong [1:55]
6. The New Syllabus [4:42]
7. Against the Law [2:11]
8. A Front-Page Attack [3:08]
9. Dismissed [5:06]
10. Not Dangerous, Subversive [1:10]
11. Joan Brandwyn [4:01]
12. Betty's Wedding [8:40]
13. The Jackson Pollock Assignment [5:27]
14. Accepted to Yale Law School [3:36]
15. An Early Christmas Present [1:37]
16. Off the Track [3:26]
17. The Paint-by-Numbers Lecture [3:55]
18. Adam's Ribs [5:54]
19. The Contemporary Art Lecture [4:19]
20. Stupid, Deceived & Angry [1:15]
21. Belated Gift Exchange [6:05]
22. The Truth About Charlie [2:34]
23. Spring Fling 1954 [7:15]
24. Her Fate Is Sealed [7:16]
25. Stan Sher [5:26]
26. A Conditional Invitation [3:59]
27. "How Else Will You Remember Us?" [3:12]
28. A Woman Who Lived by Example [9:18]

Perry Seibert

Wellesley College is a women's college where the best and the brightest women of New England's privileged class come to learn, if not necessarily to think. Mona Lisa Smile is about how the new art history teacher, unmarried Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), asks the young women of that university to reject the oppressive domestic goddess lifestyle that awaits almost all of them after graduation. Of the three students most affected by Watson, Maggie Gyllenhaal's Giselle Levy gets the best lines. The alcohol-swilling, sexually promiscuous rebel she plays feels like a product of the '50s, and Giselle quickly adores finding an older role model in Watson. Julia Stiles does the best work in the film as Joan Brandwyn, who opens up to the possibility that she does not have to marry her sweetheart. Her scene with Roberts after she makes the decision about her future is the best scene in the film because it is the only one in which anybody shows Watson that her beliefs may not be best for everyone. Sadly, the talented Kirsten Dunst as rich bitch Betty Warren is saddled with the worst scenes and the worst dialogue in the film. She suffers simply because she accepts wholeheartedly what she has been spoon-fed from childhood. Her punishment is so total and so extreme that the film becomes little more than a wholehearted acceptance of Watson's world view. That, plus the cartoonish treatment of Marcia Gay Harden as a heartbroken spinster who intensely believes in the importance of properly planned dinner parties, makes Mona Lisa Smile feel like a feminist film made by Wellesley graduates who want you to learn about feminism, but do not ask you to think about it. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Emily R. See  Actor 
Nicole Frydman  Actor 
Richard Jones  Actor 
Christian Perry  Actor 
Peter J. Rowan  Actor 
Kristen Marie Holly  Actor 
Devon Jencks  Actor 
Melissa Deles  Actor 
Betina Hershey  Actor 
Annette Nicole  Actor 
Sarah Billings Wheeler  Actor 
Melanie Angelique Moyer  Actor 
Kevin Osborne  Actor 
Daisy Baldwin  Actor 
Kristyn Coppola  Actor 
Michele Hillen  Actor 
Maja Walpvszyl  Actor 
Christopher Bonomo  Actor 
Aleksa Palladino  Actor 
Julie Wagner  Actor 
Krysten Ritter  Actor 
June Miller  Actor 
Nikki Coble  Actor 
Stella Hao  Actor 
Trisha Trokan  Actor 
Richard O'Rourke  Actor 
Maria Vicens Girau  Actor 
Nickolay Khazanov  Actor 
Tony Scheppler  Actor 
Jennifer H. Anderson  Actor 
Jackie Sanders  Actor 
Jennie Eisenhower  Actor 
Emily Bauer  Actor 
Megan Marie Ford  Actor 
Amy Montminy  Actor 
Elise Passamani  Actor 
Shelby Bond  Actor 
Sid Grant  Actor 
Maria Levinstein  Actor 
Gabriel Vaughan  Actor 
Chris Burke  Actor 
Chuck Montgomery  Actor 
Dan Weltner  Actor 
James Callahan  Actor 
Christopher Braden Jones  Actor 
Jennifer Bowen  Actor 
Kate Glass  Actor 
Katherine Reilly  Actor 
Carrie Ann Kaye  Actor 
Leslie Lyles  Actor 
Lisa Roberts Gillan  Actor 
Taylor Roberts  Actor 
Lauren Adler  Actor 
Kristen Connolly  Actor 
Walker Hays  Actor 
Megan Tropea  Actor 
Rob Buntzen  Actor 
Noelle Gibson  Actor 
Jerry Jordan  Actor 
Daniel Ponickly  Actor 
Brad Mehldau  Actor 
Tori Amos  Actor 
Joel Palmer  Actor 
Larry Grenadier  Actor 
Ebon Moss-Bachrach  Actor 
Paul Vincent Black  Actor 
Janine Barris  Actor 
Kimberly Ehly  Actor 
Annika Marks  Actor 
Mary S. Pascoe  Actor 
Katherine Argo  Actor 
Natalie Gomez  Actor 
Nadia Kravets  Actor 
Solomon Singer  Actor 
Lindsey White  Actor 
Rony Clanton  Actor 
Becky Veduccio  Actor 
John Scurti  Actor 
Lily Lodge  Actor 
Kirstie Bingham  Actor 
Lauren Fruchter  Actor 
Lily Rabe  Actor 
Laura M. Flahive  Actor 
Michael Choi  Actor 
Madeleine Hackney  Actor 
Kellydawn Malloy  Actor 
Kim Villanueva  Actor 
Dorothy Dwyer  Actor 
Yuval Hod  Actor 
Lance Olds  Actor 
Denise Zadroga  Actor 
Charles Techman  Actor 
Liliane Thomas  Actor 
Ed Peed  Actor 
Angelique Claire  Actor 
Amanda Gruss  Actor 
Brandy Tipton  Actor 
Erin E. Richardson  Actor 
John D. Fowler  Actor 
Canedy Knowles  Actor 
Lou Brock  Actor 
Lawrence Konner  Screenwriter 
Mike Newell  Director 
Rachel Portman  Composer (Music Score) 
Mark Rosenthal  Screenwriter 
Joe Roth  Executive Producer 
Paul Schiff  Producer 
Deborah Schindler  Producer 
Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas  Producer 
Julia Roberts  Actor 
Kirsten Dunst  Actor 
Julia Stiles  Actor 
Maggie Gyllenhaal  Actor 
Juliet Stevenson  Actor 
Dominic West  Actor 
Ginnifer Goodwin  Actor 
Topher Grace  Actor 
John Slattery  Actor 
Marcia Gay Harden  Actor 
Jordan Bridges  Actor 
Marian Seldes  Actor 
Donna Mitchell  Actor 
Terence Rigby  Actor 
Laura Allen  Actor 

Country: USA