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by AliventiAsylum  in Movies,  - Top 50, Mar 11 '04
Pros: good look at women's roles and expectations in the 1950's
Cons: could have lost Julia Robert's whole plot and the film would be better
Being adopted, I often get into discussions on adoption in various locations on the Internet. Invariably, there are always those that can’t understand that things were different back in the 50's and 60's when many of our mothers surrendered their ...
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by three_ster in Movies, - Top 10, Jun 17 '04
Pros: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, themes and story
Cons: male actors were miscast
In the newest twist on the movie Dead Poets Society , Mona Lisa Smile is about a new teacher entering into a new school in 1953. Just as with Dead Poets, we have a conservative school, with a not-so-conservative teacher moving in to show these ...
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by pmills1210 in Movies, - Top 500, Dec 30 '03
Pros: All nice, all pleasant
Cons: All very safe
At one point in the movie "Mona Lisa Smile," art history teacher Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) brings a Van Gogh paint-by-numbers set to her class, challenging her young, upper-crust students to either appreciate art or imitate it. Each student ...
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by captaind in Movies, - Top 50, Oct 01 '04
Pros: Good treatment of the subject...
Cons: ... bad treatment of the characters.
Mona Lisa Smile is a thoughtful treatment of the subject of both female identity and the history of art. Now if that isn’t enough to scare the pants off macho action film fans then I don’t know what is, but it’s a good film in its own ...
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by kristinafh - Top 50, Dec 20 '03
Pros: The ensemble cast.
Cons: A couple of predictable sequences.
I will confess to never being a huge fan of Julia Roberts. I liked her enough in Mystic Pizza (before she was anybody), Steel Magnolias, and Pretty Woman. In fact, with each movie - up until ...
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by flamepillar - Top 50, Dec 20 '03
Pros: I think.
Cons: Therefore I am... not getting my fat butt in shape.
This was definitely "one to miss" the first time I saw the trailer. But you know what they say about curiosity and the cat. Mona Lisa Smile is what I guess you might call a "f*ck tradition" kind of movie. Katherine Watson (Julia ...
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by CyndiA - Top 50, Dec 23 '04
Pros: Good overall idea. Nice 50s costumes and music.
Cons: Still scratching my head over some of the twists.
Katherine Ann Watsona is hired to teach at an east coast prep school. This is the 1950s, so the prep part is getting girls ready for marriage and to run households. Watsona is from California, and she is not quite prepared for this cultural landscape. ...
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by Twix109 - Top 1000, Dec 29 '03
Pros: great acting and actresses
Cons: predictable, Connie is annoying! Betty is evil!
I haven't written a movie review in a very long time; I need constructive criticism on how to make this baby as best as possible. I'm going to try my hardest - what's the worst that can happen? Yesterday I went to go see this PG-13 movie with my mom, ...
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by Pffrdfdus7 , Mar 14 '04
Pros: relatively fluffy, forgettable...
Cons: still obnoxious and very problematic
Naturally and lazily passed off as something of a sister companion to Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society, Mike Newell’s frowning malcontent about pedigree complacency, Mona Lisa Smile, is to be considered in its own precise echelon for ...
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by thevoid99 - Top 100, Dec 20 '03
Pros: Cinematography, Production, Costumes, & the Performances of Harden, Gyllenhaal, and Goodwin.
Cons: A Generic, Messy Script, Newell's Mediocre Direction, & Bland Acting from Roberts, Stiles, & Dunst.
Often touted as America’s Sweetheart, Julia Roberts has made some nice, lighthearted films like “Pretty Woman”, “Steel Magnolias”, “Notting Hill”, “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and her Oscar-winning role in “Erin ...
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by d_fienberg - Top 500, Dec 24 '03
Pros: Gyllenhaal, Harden and Stevenson are fine and the movie is very nice to look at
Cons: Entirely false, through and through
Back in the day, movie stars used to occasionally be mysterious. Back before the paparazzi and Internet journalism and People magazine, there were aspects of ambiguity to our favorite matinee idols. Today, the mystery is gone. Movies starring Tom ...
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by MrsNormanMaine - Top 1000, May 22 '04
Pros: Mike Newell's assured direction. Kristen Dunst. Marcia Gay Harden. Juliet Stevenson.
Cons: Uninspired, derivative script.
We continue to lay down footage for my new reality television show, American Idyl where ten little girls between the ages of four and eight are competing to become the Shirley Temple of the new millennium. Most of the sequences we've been working ...
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by hugh_u_kidden , Mar 12 '04
Pros: Very intense interactions between students and their expectations
Cons: Clumsy script, weak plot, and lackluster performances
I remember my college days: The bottle rockets in the dorm halls, the belching contests, the "Smash a Car for Charity" rally, and, of course, the students and their activities. It was a good time, mostly, in a little backwater school, and nothing...I ...
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by roheblius - Top 500, Dec 13 '03
Pros: The supporting cast was excellent
Cons: I didn't buy the romance or Julia Roberts all that much
I was whisked away from the office as my wife came across tickets to see a sneak preview showing of Mona Lisa Smile. My wife is a huge Julia Roberts fan, and I can't say that I don't like Roberts though sometimes I feel she has found her niche and ...
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by GravityGirl - Top 500, Dec 21 '03
Pros: Great ensemble cast of young women
Cons: The great ensemble cast is upstaged by Julia Roberts
I subscribe to several periodicals that contain movie reviews but Entertainment Weekly is the only magazine I routinely trust when it comes to reviews. I knew that I probably wouldn't like Mona Lisa Smile when I saw that EW had given it a D but I went ...
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