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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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Mike Newell
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Actors:
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Julia Stiles,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Terence Rigby,
Leslie Lyles,
Ginnifer Goodwin,
Jennie Eisenhower,
Julia Roberts,
Kirsten Dunst,
Dominic West,
Juliet Stevenson,
Marcia Gay Harden,
John Slattery,
Marian Seldes,
Donna Mitchell,
Laura Allen,
Ginnifer Goodwin
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)119
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Plot Summary:
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Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art record at the notable Wellesley College. Watson is a altogether modern woman, specifically for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for skill but recompense her students. To the most party, the students all appear to be biding their time, waiting to find the right man to marry. The students are all awfully alight and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a firm bond is formed between instructor and schoolchild, Watson's views are incompatible with the outstanding culture of the college.
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How To Be Predictable And Mawkish
The lovely Julia Roberts plays once again a fairytale character along the lines of the prostitute she played in 'Pretty Woman'. And about as convincing.
If you liked 'Pretty Woman' and didn't find it offensively simple-minded, then you will probably enjoy this highly unlikely story of a committed art-history teacher in stuffy 50s Massachusetts (portrayed by Roberts extremely unconvincingly). Otherwise, avoid.
Fifties era relationship angst and Women's lib, Julia Roberts style. And all the horrors that implies.
50's America, a country in dire need of a missile crisis to shake thing up a bit. Into an cloyingly twee and pompous Wellesley College steps progressive Arts teacher Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) who immediately sets about trying to liberate her female students with notions of independence and various other well-meaning slogans with little regard as to whether her choir wants to be preached to or not. This social commentary quickly fades away from the canvas leaving a rather lacklustre relationship drama that's spread over too many characters none of which are painted in more than the shallowest of brushstrokes. Floundering around making the same points multiple times over it's needlessly lengthy two hours, this would be a reasonably enjoyable film thanks to solid support fr...
Mona Lisa Smile
Slick, liable drama with Roberts miscast as the earnest pedagogue.
Mona Lisa Smile
In this girls' own Numb Poets Society, maverick craft history prof Katherine Watson (Roberts) strains to show...
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