Mona Lisa Smile Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Last modified: Dec. 22, 2008

Mona Lisa Smile

Director: Mike Newell

Starring: Julia Roberts • Julia Stiles • Kirsten Dunst • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Ginnifer Goodwin

PG-13 Drama N/A

88% WILL SEE 13% WON'T SEE

Plot: Academy Award®-winner Julia Roberts heads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Marcia Gay Harden in "Mona Lisa Smile", an uplifting and poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students. In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, novice art history professor Katherine Watson (Roberts) begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, which despite its academic reputation is an environment where success is measured by how well the students marry. Encouraging these women to strive for a more enlightened future, Watson challenges the administration and inspires her students to look beyond the image of what is, and consider the possibilities of what could be.

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A look at Mona Lisa Smile behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Mike Newell last helmed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Great Expectations.

Dec 2004

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Parent Rating: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for sexual content, thematic issues
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Language: English

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Mona Lisa Smile was released in on Friday, December 19 , 2003. There were three other movies released on the same date, including The Hebrew Hammer, Calendar Girls and The Fog of War.