MONA LISA SMILE (2004)

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Plot

It's 1950s America and recent graduate Katherine Watson has been employed by a prestigious, but archaic, girls' school as their new art history teacher. Katherine however is keen to teach way beyond the set curriculum, she feels it her duty to expand the minds of her repressed pupils and drag a reluctant social strata into the modern world. 'Mona Lisa Smile' is not unlike 'Dead Poets' Society', ruthlessly adept with the emotional manipulation, intense and earnest but head crunchingly shallow; you'll either loath it are revel in all its uplifting, tear jerking glory. On a sub note, I don't know how long it will last, but it doesn't matter how deep you dunk the Gyllenhaal siblings in the doo doo they still emerge whiffing of something sweeter.