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Mona Lisa Smile [Blu-ray]

4.7 out of 5 stars 2,828 ratings
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Genre Drama
Format Blu-ray, AC-3, NTSC, Subtitled, Dolby, Dubbed, Widescreen, Color
Contributor Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dominic West, Julia Roberts, Revolution Studios Development Company, LLC, Kirsten Dunst, Paul Schiff, Ginnifer Goodwin, Juliet Stevenson, Mike Newell, Marcia Gay Harden See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 59 minutes

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Academy Award(r)-winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress in a Leading Role, Erin Brockovich, 2000) leads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhall 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.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 6639408
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Mike Newell
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, AC-3, NTSC, Subtitled, Dolby, Dubbed, Widescreen, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 59 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 2, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ginnifer Goodwin, Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Dutch, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, English, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Paul Schiff, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001CY5MYC
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers find this movie to be a really good film with a great story and meaningful message. The acting quality receives positive feedback, with one customer highlighting Julie Roberts' excellent performance. Customers appreciate the female cast, particularly Julia Roberts, and the movie's educational value, with one review noting how it provides roles as intellectual professionals in society. The visual quality is praised for its beautiful scenery and authentic touches.

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125 customers mention "Movie quality"116 positive9 negative

Customers find this movie to be really good, with one customer specifically noting it as an excellent film about a teacher.

"What a good movie." Read more

"I loved this movie. So empowering. Julia Roberts was fantastic" Read more

"Amazing movie about the struggle of women in the 1900s" Read more

"...Harden, in particular, is so out of touch, and so sweet. Best performance in the film. I also liked Juliet Stevenson as the Lesbian (horrors!)...." Read more

46 customers mention "Story quality"46 positive0 negative

Customers find the movie's story meaningful and inspirational, describing it as uplifting with a profound message.

"Excellent.. This movie is very uplifting and funny and entertaining and something The ladies of the house will love it's something of what happened..." Read more

"...contemporary culture has made them out to be, this film reaches me on an emotional level and has the power to make me feel pleasantly nostalgic for..." Read more

"I loved this movie. So empowering. Julia Roberts was fantastic" Read more

"Inspirational film, similar vibes to Dead Poet’s Society but different setting and storyline. For any passionate educator or lover of learning!!" Read more

38 customers mention "Acting quality"36 positive2 negative

Customers praise the acting in the movie, particularly noting the best actresses in the film, with one customer specifically mentioning Julie Roberts' excellent performance.

"...The rest of the cast is excellent. To appreciate this film, try to put aside your 21st-century perceptions. This is the way it was...." Read more

"...Julia Robert’s character draws you in and as always her acting just makes you smile." Read more

"...One of the best movies I have seen!!!! Great group of actors." Read more

"Love the cast in this movie. Good historical references and social/political undertones. Kristen Dunst (is that her name?)..." Read more

19 customers mention "Education"19 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's educational value, with one customer noting how it provides roles as intellectual professionals in society, while another highlights its look at early college life.

"...Julie Roberts is wonderful as an art teacher in an upscale women's college...." Read more

"This movie is mind broadening and shares many truths...but I do not buy that we can do both and do them both well...." Read more

"Love the cast in this movie. Good historical references and social/political undertones. Kristen Dunst (is that her name?)..." Read more

"It was ok. At the end i guess she got her dream and did influence the girls...." Read more

19 customers mention "Entertainment value"19 positive0 negative

Customers find the movie entertaining and interesting, with one customer noting it keeps attention from beginning to end.

"Excellent.. This movie is very uplifting and funny and entertaining and something The ladies of the house will love it's something of what happened..." Read more

"...The film still has a lot to say to us today and it's entertaining too. Good job, Mike Newll!" Read more

"Very interesting" Read more

"This movie is mind broadening and shares many truths...but I do not buy that we can do both and do them both well...." Read more

19 customers mention "Female cast"19 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the female cast of the movie, particularly Julia Roberts, and find it a great film for young women.

"...It had a great story and is definitely a chick flick. Julia Robert’s character draws you in and as always her acting just makes you smile." Read more

"...Has many strong female roles, and may be able to teach young woman to not conform into the roles that society sometimes wants to put them in...." Read more

"This movie is a great depiction of the stereotyped roles females were raised to fill in the early 1950s...." Read more

"...I loved it. The clothes, music with the dancing, and cars and how women DID think." Read more

16 customers mention "Visual quality"16 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the visual quality of the movie, describing it as a work of art that talks about art and perspective, with one customer noting its beautiful scenery.

"...I still love the look of the film; the costumes, cars, building interiors, the campus scenery, as well as the music, both the period music and the..." Read more

"...I loved the authentic touches -- all the little hats and the clip earrings, one of which had to be removed when you talked on the phone...." Read more

"...this movie on recommendation of a friend, just to see the stunning Wellesley campus...." Read more

"...She did justice and some to this role. I loved the plot and all the art work they showed in it. There's a big lesson for everyone in this book...." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

  • Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
    One of my all time favorite movies!
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2025
    Excellent.. This movie is very uplifting and funny and entertaining and something The ladies of the house will love it's something of what happened in the past but it truly is a magnificent
    Entertaining educational movie to watch loved it especially the end
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2025
    What a good movie.
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2011
    (SOME MINOR SPOILERS BELOW; ALSO SPOILERS FOR DPS)

    ...but I love this film. I've read most of the negative reviews both here and on IMDB, and I can't help but agree with many of the criticisms, particularly where time-period and anachronistic elements are concerned. I know that every 1950's cliché is at maximum wattage and Katherine Watson arrives at Wellesley College not on a train but in a Way-Back Time Machine from the 21st Century. Many of the main characters are one-dimensional and unconvincing and the plot is plodding and predictable. I understand that it's probably meant to channel the spirit of "Dead Poets Society" for women a little bit, and I can see that some of the main values taught by the respective teachers in each are similar, but DPS hit audiences on a deeper level, with a darker ending. I mean, one could hardly compare Neil Perry's suicide to Betty Warren's divorce. Professor Keating is blamed for Neil's suicide and is fired, but in the end no one blames Katherine for Betty's divorce (except maybe Betty's mother) and Katherine makes her own decision to leave Wellesley. The students in MLS are grown-up, college seniors ready for "real" life; the boys in DPS are all still just high-school kids. Professor Keating is loved almost immediately and absolutely by nearly all of his students; Katherine has to slowly earn the respect of her students, one at a time.

    Despite the critics, I do believe that there ARE truths in MLS, if only because my mother, who lived and attended college at that time, pointed them out to me. She confirmed that most of the young women she attended school with were NOT in college because they had dreams and ambitions of high-powered careers. None of the girls in her classes, dorm or sorority wanted to be scientists, bank managers, lawyers, doctors or CEO's (that she knew of, anyway.) Most of them viewed post-graduate employment (as a bookkeeping clerk, secretary/receptionist, a nurse, or the main career option - a teacher) as simply a way to make a living until Mr. Right came along or as a way to pass the time and supplement their income for a few years after marrying until the kids started coming.

    That doesn't mean they didn't appreciate their college education. Though my mother admitted freely to being one of those women who cared more about getting an "MRS" than a BofA, she said a good many of the girls were quite interested in the outside world, artistic freedom, literature, philosophy, politics and current events. She knew a few young women who continued on to graduate school or nursing school, but she knew of only one person whom she called "career-oriented" at that time, and that girl's eventual goal was to be a school principal like her own mother was. For the most part, in my mother's experience, the girls she knew in college weren't all that different from the girls in MLS. My college experience 30 years later was different. The girls I knew in college were there because of what they wanted to achieve professionally, not to look for mates.

    I still love the look of the film; the costumes, cars, building interiors, the campus scenery, as well as the music, both the period music and the score. I sympathized with poor Nancy Abbey whose dreams of a home and family are fading, and Giselle who was looking so hard for male approval and companionship to make up for the father who left when she was still young and impressionable. I at first hated Betty Warren along with everyone else, but I truly felt sorry for her in the end. Spencer Jones is unpleasant enough, but Jordan Bridges is a very mediocre actor. He just came across as flat and wooden.

    Even though I know intellectually that the 1950's were not the idyllic, simple time our contemporary culture has made them out to be, this film reaches me on an emotional level and has the power to make me feel pleasantly nostalgic for a time that at least seemed a little more stable than the time I grew up in.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024
    I loved this movie. So empowering. Julia Roberts was fantastic
  • Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2004
    I love this film. As one who attended a college much like Wellesley at about the same time as the story, had a professor much like Kate Watson, and had a family much like Betty's, I can tell you that's the way it was. My professor, too, urged me to go to graduate school, but I made Joan's choice. Nearly all of us did. To go to grad school was to give up all hope of marriage, which we were assured was our destiny. The purported purpose of our splendid education was to enable us to be helpful to our husbands and raise intelligent children.
    I loved the authentic touches -- all the little hats and the clip earrings, one of which had to be removed when you talked on the phone. And the baggy jeans, because they didn't make jeans for women then -- you had to buy men's jeans, which had to be cinched in with a belt if they were to be big enough to fit over the hips. Betty's wedding surprised me, though. Aside from the crinolines under the bridesmaid's skirts, it seemed more sixtyish to me.
    I'm no fan of Julia Roberts, but I think she did Kate very well indeed. The rest of the cast is excellent. To appreciate this film, try to put aside your 21st-century perceptions. This is the way it was. The film still has a lot to say to us today and it's entertaining too. Good job, Mike Newll!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
    We really enjoyed this video!
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2024
    Inspirational film, similar vibes to Dead Poet’s Society but different setting and storyline. For any passionate educator or lover of learning!!
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  • Emiliano Lorieri
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bello
    Reviewed in Italy on February 15, 2020
    A me il film è piaciuto molto. Poi la Roberts è una delle mie attrici preferite
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  • isabelle beroux
    5.0 out of 5 stars Merveilleux
    Reviewed in France on February 27, 2025
    Un Film très touchant qui brosse le portrait
    des femmes pendant les années 50. Le choc de deux mondes et de deux façons de concevoir sa vie dans une société où les femmes dépendaient financièrement de leur mari
  • あきチン
    5.0 out of 5 stars 気に入った
    Reviewed in Japan on December 24, 2015
    ジュリアロバーツ往年の作品の一部、こんな一面も有ったんだね・・
  • FF628
    5.0 out of 5 stars 思わぬ収穫
    Reviewed in Japan on September 24, 2012
    Nicky に恋に落ち Julia Stiles 目当てで購入。彼女が演じる Joan は例によって優等生役なのだけれど、1950年代ファッションがいまひとつしっくりいっていない(特に髪型が…)ところが残念。そんな中で目にとまったのが、保守的な名門大学内でセクシービームをまき散らす Giselle 役の Maggie Gyllenhaal 。独特のエキゾチックさが魅力的で、他の出演作も観たくなった。
  • T
    5.0 out of 5 stars Per gli amanti dell’arte
    Reviewed in Italy on July 27, 2020
    Perfetto