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	YMA Movie Review - Mona Lisa Smile
		Mona Lisa Smile looks at women’s roles in the 1950s and shows that women have made some advancements in society over the last fifty years.
		The movie is set at a time when a woman’s “sole responsibility was to take care of her husband and children” and the thought of having a career was far removed.
		The movie addresses the sexual revolution that began to occur at this time and exposes the hypocrisy that it was acceptable for married men to have affairs.
	www.youngmedia.org.au /mediachildren/07_04/07_04_082_mona_lisa_smile.htm (920 words)

	Review: Mona Lisa Smile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mona Lisa Smile is an exercise in relentless mediocrity - a trite melodrama that raises a number of interesting possibilities, then ignores them in favor of taking the "safe" path.
		Mona Lisa Smile's bright spots come from Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary) and Ginnifer Goodwyn (TV's "Ed"), whose performances are on-target and whose characters are interesting enough to warrant more screen time than they are given.
		Mona Lisa Smile's director is Mike Newell, whose previous credits include the gangster film Donnie Brasco, the underrated jewel Enchanted April, and the internationally-known Four Weddings and a Funeral.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mona_lisa_smile.html (694 words)

	Mona Lisa Smile - Review
		Yep, stripped down to its essential elements, 'Mona Lisa Smile' is a remake of 'Dead Poets' Society', only the teacher is a woman, art historian Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), the institution is Wellesley College for girls, and the time is the mid-1950s.
		What is new about 'Mona Lisa Smile' is its feminism - albeit a kind of feminism-lite, written and directed by men, and launched at the decidedly easy target of the 1950s American establishment.
		'Mona Lisa Smile' is a well-crafted piece of period cinema, although given the many lectures which Watson delivers on the need to break with tradition and find new modes of expression, it is rather surprising that the film itself has been directed in such a conventional style.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/597 (701 words)

	Mona Lisa (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film which tells the story of a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl.
		The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan.
		It was produced by George Harrison's Handmade Films.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mona_Lisa_(movie) (126 words)

	Rannarootsi - Movie Review Mona Lisa Smile
		"Mona Lisa Smile" is a movie about a young professor, Katherine Watson, who takes her first teaching job at a conservative East Coast college for women.
		Despite the almost-all female cast, I definately would not characterize this movie as a "chick-flick." The acting was top-notch, and that in and of itself is a reason to see this movie.
		One can only hope that more movies are written for power-casts such as this, although perhaps next time with a more challenging storyline in order to let the actresses truly shine in their roles.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/rannarootsi/moviereview/monalisasmile.htm (304 words)

	Mona Lisa Smile Movie Review - Mona Lisa Smile Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		In ''Mona Lisa Smile,'' a progressive art-history professor tries to teach the snooty know-it-alls dotting her lecture hall that life is bigger than marriage.
		In her eyes and the movie's, the Wellesley of yesteryear has a student body whose unofficial major appears to be housewifery.
		The reliable Mike Newell directs ''Mona Lisa Smile'' with such assurance that the important moments are never mawkish or dull, and he encourages the women to act with absolute conviction.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=3316 (731 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Mona Lisa Smile
		It is this first confrontational scene that is one of the elements of "Mona Lisa Smile" which rings false.
		"Mona Lisa Smile" should not be taken as seriously as some of the issues it tries to raise.
		Keeping in mind that “Mona Lisa Smile” is not aimed at the 14 to 24 male demographic – the theaters are not going to make much money from that crowd with this movie - it is a well-made, feminist-anchored, politically correct liberal film that teaches some good, modern day lessons to its femme audience.
	www.reelingreviews.com /monalisasmile.htm (1581 words)

	Mona Lisa Smile Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		This is a movie that suffers from an excess of characters and subplots.
		Spanning the course of the school year, Mona Lisa Smile is narrated by Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst), the school newspaper editor and narrow-minded daughter of an influential Wellesley alum.
		Not a terrible movie, but not as inspiring as it thinks it is, Mona Lisa Smile is too thin for its awfully big canvas.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=137724&am (2053 words)

	Mona Lisa (movie)
		Mona Lisa is a 1986 film which tells the story of a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl.
		The movie was written by Neil Jordan[?] and David Leland[?], and directed by Jordan.
		It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Bob Hoskins).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mona_Lisa_(movie).html (77 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Mona Lisa Movie Review
		The underbelly of London in Mona Lisa recalls the New York of Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
		Mona Lisa is a tough movie to categorize.
		Mona Lisa is available on DVD from the Criterion Collection and Home Vision Cinema in a beautiful widescreen digital transfer.
	flipsidemovies.com /monalisa.html (608 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Mona Lisa Smile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In "Mona Lisa Smile," she is the conduit for the plot, which flows through her character.
		The movie is not really about her romances at all, but about her function as a teacher and her determination to install feminism on the campus before that noun was widely in use.
		The movie, directed by Mike Newell, may be a little too aware of its sexual politics and might have been more absorbing if Katherine and her students were fighting their way together out of the chains of gender slavery.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/20031219/REVIEWS/312190304/1023 (543 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Mona Lisa Smile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mona Lisa Smile is directed by Mike Newell (Enchanted April, Donnie Brasco, Pushing Tin) based on a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal.
		Mona Lisa Smile joins a handful of other fine films about teachers who have made a real difference in the lives of their students.
		The DVD presents an "Art Forum" in which the cast members answer Katherine's question "What is art?" Another feature comparing college life for women in 1953 and now with comments by the cast, director, and producers; and a second one looks at the cultural expectations for women in the 50's.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_6830.html (569 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Mona Lisa Smile
		Paramount Pictures is preparing to release a new movie Oct. 4 called "Elizabethtown," starring Orlando Bloom, star of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "Troy," among others, and Kirsten Dunst, heroine of the "Spider-Man" movies with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Mona Lisa Smile" among her recent credits.
		The Mona Lisa Smile star appears as himself, dishevelled after trashing a hotel room in Hollywood's Standard, which is owned in the comedy heist movie by Brad Pitt's character Rusty.
		Paige (Julia Stiles, Mona Lisa Smile) is a Wisconsin-born student ace with a sarcastic wit who works hard for her entrance into medical school and enjoys being an independent girl with aspirations to leave the Midwest.
	movies.surfwax.com /files/Mona_Lisa_Smile.html (4178 words)

	The Dent: Mona Lisa Smile
		Mona Lisa Smile was released on DVD in the U.S. and likely elsewhere on March 9, 2004.
		The movie Mona Lisa Smile is set to be released in U.K. theatres on March 11, 2004.
		The movie took place in 1954 with Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles, Kristen Dunst, etc...she was standing UP singing at the wedding reception in a classy blue sparkly dress with her hair up (i think it was up) with an orchestra behind her.
	thedent.com /monalisa.html (2138 words)

	Mona Lisa Smile - Rotten Tomatoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mike 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.
		Roberts' character may be presented as a breath of fresh air, but the movie surrounding her is the cinematic equivalent of halitosis.
		Mona Lisa Smile's lesson of the day is delivered in an unoriginal manner through such shallow and unlikable characters that its message lacks an emotional punch.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mona_lisa_smile (1017 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Mona Lisa Smile
		Through such flicks as "Mona Lisa Smile," "Higher Learning" and "Where the Boys Are" students are prompted to study relationships and find their identities as college students, said Sally Jackson, who teaches the college experience on film.
		The producers of Mona Lisa Smile have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by 19 female musicians who claimed that they had been paid less than their male counterparts who worked on the film...
		Mona Lisa Smile stars Julia Roberts as novice art history professor Katherine Watson in an uplifting and poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students.
	movies.surfwax.com /files/Mona_Lisa_Smile_Movie.html (4092 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie review - Mona Lisa Smile
		"Mona Lisa Smile" does offer a loving, amusingly detailed re-creation of the styles and music of the Eisenhower era, as well as a stellar ensemble of actresses playing the mostly WASP upper-class students and wives-to-be in Katherine's first Wellesley class.
		Konner and Rosenthal were inspired to make "Mona," they say, by the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton attended Wellesley in the '60s -- and their writing here is often as slick, melodramatic and self-convinced as the average political ad.
		You might assume that the fact "Mona Lisa Smile" was based on Hillary Clinton's Wellesley years might mean that the authors intended Katherine as a kind of Hillary surrogate.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---19867,00.html (547 words)

	The Seattle Times: Movies: 'Mona Lisa' style: Costumes sharper than ideas in collegiate drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That visitor (played by a mega-star whose presence guarantees box-office attention) is first seen as an enemy of the natives, but once they have spent time together, both the visitor and the natives learn from the other, each emerging forever changed by the experience.
		Yes, but it's also "Mona Lisa Smile." Substitute the oak-paneled halls of a 1950s Seven Sisters college for the sweeping landscapes of 19th-century Japan, and it's virtually the same movie, give or take a sword or girdle.
		Ultimately, "Mona Lisa Smile" backs down from the feminist message Katherine first seems to be giving her students, dissolving into blandness.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/movies/2001818640_mona19.html (691 words)

	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - Mona Lisa Smile review (2003)
		It's sometimes an irony when the main problem of the movie is summarized within the movie itself, as there is a subplot involving making your own replica of a Van Gogh painting using a paint-by-numbers kit.
		Mona Lisa Smile is set in 1953, at Wellesley College for women.
		This college prides itself in conforming to the traditions of the time, and regardless of the education earned, the expectation is that the women will never really apply it, as they are expected to be married and have families instead.
	www.qwipster.net /monalisasmile.htm (587 words)

	TNMC: Untitled Deadpool Column
		"Mona Lisa's Smile, by Larry Konner and Mark Rosenthal (revised October, 18, 2001), is perhaps the only script/movie in history to acknowledge and note the stupidity of one of the most annoying clichés in movie history.
		The twist is the pervasive sense of female empowerment throughout the story, which, unlike the popular "women in danger" movies of recent years, manages to promote a positive female identity through intelligent discourse (and sexuality, the struggle for equal opportunities, etc.), instead of by simply kicking male ass.
		Tradition states that repressed female figures in movies about female empowerment are those women who simply don't know any better - yeah, Mom never went to college, and married quickly to guarantee that she wouldn't have to.
	www.tnmc.org /dp/0821021.shtml (1081 words)

	Movie: Mona Lisa Smile
		"Mona Lisa" is an astonishingly similar film to "Dead Poets," with an important exception: It's not annoying as all get-out.
		Whereas "Poets" was about an inspiring teacher who spends a semester forcing a bunch of students to worship him as a god, "Mona Lisa" is about a teacher more interested in making her students fall in love with art than in making them fall in love with her.
		"Mona Lisa," which includes roughly 650 different ways for Julia Roberts to tell her students to think for themselves, isn't a subtle movie, but it does allow for surprising shades of meaning: The teacher is not always right, for instance, and sometimes it's her students who teach her.
	ae.freep.com /entertainment/ui/michigan/movie.html?id=122221&reviewId=13956 (620 words)

	Mona Lisa Smile : Movie Review
		She quickly realises that the supposed forward thinking of this prestigious girls’ college is mostly a facade and brands it a finishing school in disguise.
		Mona Lisa Smile has been proffered as a film concerning non-conformity and although it clearly has aspirations to say something original and significant, it features stereotypical characters and adheres to a crowd-pleasing formula.
		Ultimately though, as the film’s direction and themes contradict one another the inspirational sentiment is lessened and Mona Lisa Smile is consequently not the masterpiece that it could have been.
	www.cinema.com /articles/2724/mona-lisa-smile-movie-review.phtml (252 words)

	Mona Lisa speaks ... virtually - Science - MSNBC.com
		TOKYO - The Mona Lisa may hide many secrets behind her enigmatic smile, but the sound of her voice may no longer be one of them, thanks to the work of a Japanese forensics expert.
		For the Mona Lisa, the laboratory worked with a photograph of the painting to get detailed measurements of her face and hands, Suzuki said.
		The Mona Lisa's presumptive voice, it can now be said, is a bit on the deep side though not throaty, while that of da Vinci is also deep but more nasal.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13065968 (630 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Mona Lisa Movie Review
		The underbelly of London in Mona Lisa recalls the New York of Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
		Mona Lisa is a tough movie to categorize.
		Mona Lisa is available on DVD from the Criterion Collection and Home Vision Cinema in a beautiful widescreen digital transfer.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /monalisa.html (608 words)

	Movie : Mona Lisa Smile - Art History
		Synopsis: In Mona Lisa Smile, the viewer gets a glimpse of the personal lives of a group of girls attending prestigious all-female Wellesley College and how they are shaped by mid-1950s society.
		In her quest to enlighten the students, Watson encounters the conservative views of the college administration and faculty as well as parents of the students.
		The main value in Mona Lisa Smile lies in the understanding of a generation of women who were taught to believe that marriage and housewifery was the only meaningful option for women of their class and that it was guaranteed to provide fulfillment.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art30836.asp (347 words)

	'Mona Lisa Smile' sags, but acting and 1950s score give moviegoers a lift
		Julia Roberts' new star vehicle, "Mona Lisa Smile," is a strangely mixed blessing filled with glossy production values and vibrant supporting performances but suffers mightily from a lack of credibility and the grinding predictability of its plot.
		And the movie is almost worth seeing for its soundtrack, which is packed with such delightful (and rarely heard these days) pre-rock pop standards as "Mona Lisa," "You Belong to Me," "Besame Mucho," "Secret Love" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)."
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	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/153103_monslisa19q.html (581 words)

	Mona Lisa Smile movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Mona Lisa Smile will be released on R1 DVD in the US on 9th March 2004.
		Academy Award(r) winner Julia Roberts stars in Mona Lisa Smile as Katherine Watson, a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953.
		Mona Lisa Smile, the new Julia Roberts movie begins filming in New York at the Ukraine Academy on October 7th.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/m/monalisasmile.htm (1507 words)

	New Zealand's source for entertainment news, gossip & music, movie & book reviews on Stuff.co.nz: Mona Lisa smiles from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Mona Lisa is now smiling from a large structure resembling a giant picture frame right at one end of an 840 square metre room, where visitors can admire her from behind a wooden railing.
		Louvre officials said last year the Mona Lisa showed signs of wear and have ordered an in-depth technical and scientific analysis to determine the painting's state.
		The Mona Lisa has taken on a brownish cast due to the accumulation of dust and dirt and chemical changes to the varnish covering its surface, but the museum has so far resisted pressure to restore the painting to its original colours.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3239332a1860,00.html (512 words)

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