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Watch: Mona Lisa Smile 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to find the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson’s views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college..
Plot: The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women’s private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, United States.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 83,517
	34% | RottenTomatoes
	45/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1456 Popularity: 23.363 | TMDB

Reviews:

Either you’re gonna love it or you won’t.
I just watched this movie in the theatres as it was released just a few days ago overhere. What can you expect from it? You’ve seen the trailers… It looks pretty much like Dead Poet’s Society doesn’t it? But with women instead? :-D.

Well, I had that feeling indeed. It felt like Dead Poet’s Society during some periods in the movie. But overall, it was still different. The surface story isn’t that complicated and easy to follow. It’s nothing new either. But it was displayed very well.

Sure, it’s about a teacher… her passion to teach and the way she outwitted the students to get the best out of them… It also shows the way a good teacher cares for their students and so forth… and the way contradicting ideas may blind one’s ideas and actions, towards those who they are meant for. Did that sentence sound weird or what? :).

You can’t go wrong with the cast here. You’ve got Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ginnefer Goodwin, etc. They played great in the movie.

Julia Roberts is just great at playing these emotional roles. It was believable as well. I at least could feel the frustration which she had. Her character is more of a confused type. She reminded me of Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds… There was basically a mixture of confusion and dedication… thus as a teacher, despite how sure of she may be of her teaching methods, you also sense a nervousness in her… a feeling of uncertainty as to whether her methods of getting the messages across to the students or not will work. I thought Julia Roberts did a great job in that area.

Kirsten was just excellent. You could feel the internal turmoil going through her throughout the movie. One might argue that she had a pretty wack role and that she overacted etc. but I don’t agree with that. She’s practically a heartless b**** through the movie, but you can’t help but understand why. The same goes for Julia and Maggie. Just the way they were depicted in the movie, you really felt for them. Ginnefer Goodwin’s character was also funny and emotional to watch.

Marcia Gay Harden, as Julia’s friend was great. She was a pretty funny character to watch, but at the same time, you just can’t help but feel sorry for her.

Times have changed… from those times and now. Many might watch this movie and go, “Uhm, okay, what’s the big deal?” But the problem is that women have gone through a great ordeal and struggle to get to where they are today in society. Even today, they still fight to gain respect in many areas in the world today.

I’ve heard many bad comments about this movie. And funnily enough, most of them come from guys… whilst the females found it a bit better. There were some negative comments but many said that they loved it, but felt that it wasn’t a movie for everyone.

The movie tackling the issue of feminism only touches upon a small part of it all of course. One cannot tackle the whole aspect of feminism in any one single movie at all, and I found the focus to be good enough. There are many stereotypes here and I found them necessary to get the points across. If it were not for the stereotypes, people would be wondering what the point really was. But now that there are stereotypes, people will complain about them.

I thought that it was a bit too short. It could have focused a bit more on the other characters in the movie… i.e. the girls in school. A few more subplots and build ups may have been better. There was a little foreshadowing in the movie but one couldn’t help but wonder where the movie was going. But what overcame this, from my point of view, was that you just felt that you wanted to get to know the characters in the movie more. The more you knew about each character, the more the characters knew about one another. I thought that was quite nice.

I would advise everyone with an open mind for dramas to go watch this movie. If guys see this movie as a “chick flick”… they really won’t know what to expect cause this would be “the most THE chick flick for chicks” if you get my drift. I’m a guy and I found it entertaining… Whether it was insightful or not, I wouldn’t say it was, due to experiences and stories throughout my life.

The movie isn’t without flaws… There could have been even more character build up if only the director’s were given more film to record the picture. But do watch this if you can :). It’ll be worth the time, if you’re patient enough :).

A disappointing picture of Wellesley College in 1953
As a graduate of Wellesley College, 1952, I was eager to see the movie. For a while I thought maybe it was supposed to be a satire. I had read reviews but no one mentioned satire. It was so ludicrous, so over the top, so busy giving us stereotypes, and so far from my experience that it was depressing. I didn’t mind the Julia Roberts character although she is probably anachronistic. Certainly those young women, so well dressed for classes, talking back to her in well thought out sentences full of vitriol were figments of Hollywood’s imagination. I remember no courses offered, either in classrooms or rooms in dorms or faculty housing, on “poise,” proper table setting, etc. And nowhere in the movie did any of the girls discuss ideas (except in the art class). The nighttime dormitory sessions were all about men, getting husbands, and pointing fingers at Giselle, the “whore.” In actuality, we used to stay up late discussing ideas, and we were passionate about such things as academic freedom.

The plush dormitory rooms were more figments of Hollywood’s imagination. Our rooms were of the bare bones variety. I remember bringing a comfortable chair of my own from home.

I loved my art history and music appreciation courses. They changed my life. I had known nothing of art before Wellesley and only the Warsaw Concerto for classical music. But those two courses informed my life and have stayed with me all these years, enriching my experience. I had a career as a high school English teacher and my literature courses were wonderful for that purpose and for expanding my reading. But the art and music courses were special.

Good acting; good costumes for the most part; the people looked authentic for the times (except too dressed up for class; we wore skirts and blouses, no blue jeans). It was nice to see some of the beautiful campus. I don’t remember ever taking part in hoop rolling, daisy chain, the opening day ceremony in front of the chapel.

Finally, what was the point of making such a movie today? To suggest how far we’ve come from the 1950s? To ridicule what was then? After all, there was much that was good. I mean I feel so lucky to have been able to go to a place like Wellesley even if it was for the privileged. It certainly was not as conservative as the movie depicted; nor was it a “finishing school.” Professors were continually opening our minds to more and more knowledge. The canon then may have been mostly men (we read almost all male writers in our English courses, but that’s how it was). What was wonderful, however, was being with all women, being able to speak up freely in class, being able to win positions of authority in extra curricular organizations like the college newspaper. Not having to compete with men.

I was really disappointed, In the Women’s Room after the movie, I questioned everyone there…there were a couple my age or a little younger and then a few a generation or more younger. Everyone had liked the movie! One young woman tried to tell me it wasn’t just about Wellesley; they were depicting the 50s in general. But the fact is the 50s in general were not that dismal!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 57 min (117 min)
Budget 65000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Mike Newell
Writer Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
Actors Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
Country United States
Awards 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 250D 5246, Vision 320T 5277, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)