Mona Lisa Smile

Name: Mona Lisa Smile
Released: 2003-12-19
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Kirsten Dunst, Marcia Gay Harden

Mona Lisa Smile

PG-13
1h 59m
2003

34%

age 15+

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Academy Award ®-winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress in a Leading Role, Erin Brockovich, 2000) leads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Marcia Gay Harden. Mona Lisa Smile is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about romance.

Director:

Mike Newell

Producer:

Writer:

Cast:

Ginnifer Goodwin, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Kirsten Dunst, Marcia Gay Harden, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Roberts

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

34%

Critics Consensus: Though Mona Lisa Smile espouses the value of breaking barriers, the movie itself is predictable and safe.

Reviews

Newsweek

David Ansen

The cartoon notions of the '50s and snooty Easterners say more about Hollywood cluelessness than a...

March 12, 2018

FULL REVIEW

London Evening Standard

Antonia Quirke

Just what we need: a pyjama party posing as a movie.

Glossy entertainment value but far from art.

Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal furnish well-observed performances that frequent...

Common Sense Media

age 15+

Common Sense Says

Glossy entertainment value but far from art.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie has very explicit sexual references for a PG-13 movie, including promiscuous characters, adultery, and discussion of birth control (which was illegal in the era portrayed in the movie). Characters drink, some get tipsy, and some abuse alcohol. Just about everyone smokes. Characters use strong language including an ugly anti-Semitic epithet. Strengths of the movie include its efforts to address the issues that would be raised by the feminists of the 1960s and its positive portrayal of a gay character who is accepted without prejudice (though dismissed from her position for other reasons).