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Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 film that was produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures, directed by Mike Newell and written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. A title occurs as information to the Mona Lisa, a far-famed painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and a song of the equivalent title, sung by Nat King Cole and played in the movie itself.

Infested by critical disapproval & rumour that a actresses participating within it did non enjoy making it, a motion-picture show did non perform as much as expectations in the pack professional.

Box office performance
Costs (approximate): Production: $65,000,000 Marketing: $25,000,000 Income: United States: $63,860,942 Worldwide (excluding U.S.): $76,972,150 Profit: $51,000,000 (approx.)

Synopsis

Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of a feminist teacher ("Katherine Watson"), who leaves her swawithin behind in Los Angeles, California in 1953, to teach at Wellesley College, an all-girls, conservative college in the Eastern coast of the United States.

Watson seeks to inspire her students into believing within themselves, survey to get career agents & improve their economic stock. She uses her art teachings as a vehicle to show young women her opinion: that the stereotype of women existence natural to get homemaker & moms was wrong, & women can clean supplementary items inside life than just the roles of married woman & moms. Around 1 scene of the moving picture, she shows her students quadruplet newspaper ads, & asks a children to wonder what a first might believe of the idea that women come innate into the roles of married woman and moms.

Watson's ideas & shipway of teaching were met using dislike by section of the school's directors, conservative women world health organization believed firmly that Watson should non have her class to express her points of views or even befriend students, & stick merely to teaching art. Watson was warned that she can be fired in case she continued acting a way she did in the area of students.

Undaunted, Watson became stronger around her speeches all about feminism & a new of women. She was the firmly believer that the outlook of women inside society required to become changed in case women were to achieve better stock, & that she required to instill a spirit of vary among her students.

Watson chooses to leave fallowing a of these season, however, when she was allowing a campus for the previous instance, her students ran fallowing her car, to show her philia & thank her for her lessons. Numerous humans own found a films similarity to The Dead Poets Society potentially running and so far when to refer to that when "the feminist Dead Poets Society" or even "Dead Poets Society with girls." It was freed in VHS and DVD use on July of 2004.

Credits
Kirsten Dunst - Betty Marcia Gay Harden - Nancy Ginnifer Goodwin - Connie Maggie Gyllenhaal Giselle Julia Roberts - Katherine Watson John Slattery - Paul Marian Seldes - President Joseline Carr Juliet Stevenson - Amanda Julia Stiles - Joan Topher Grace - Tommy Donegal Dominic West - Bill Tori Amos - Wedding Singer

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