Mona Lisa Smile
2003
**½
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Julia Roberts, Marcia Gay Harden, Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst
This Dead Poetess Society tells a story of an art history teacher who attempts to open the minds of her young female students in the 1950s America. Sadly everything is painted in broad, black and white strokes, and the film gives the audience exactly what they expect. Julia Roberts feels too contemporary and doesn't convince in the lead.
