Search - Mona Lisa Smile on DVD

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 7/22/2023...

Quite the crafty decades ago drama that you come to expect from Julia Roberts. The last third part of the movie fizzled alot. A common theme should have been left out of this but it was pretty minor.

Lisa L. (LisaL) from BLOOMINGTON, IN
Reviewed on 8/18/2011...

Julia Roberts is great as the art history professor trying to instill what we consider "normal" modern-day values into a then not-so-liberted world. While there is factually nothing wrong with honoring a woman as a wife and mother, this movie portrays the downside: when being a wife/motherhood in a 1950s environment is a degrading experience – where the woman is treated like property or a sort of suburbian slave to her career-tracking male spouse.

Whereas motherhood and being a stay-at-home mom is a highly honorable activity, this movie shows the stark contrast of this not being appreciated and elevated to the valuable role it does hold: that of shaping and forming stable children that grow into contributing adults in society.

If you've every scratched your head at some of the youth of today – look no further than the way many kids are now "raised" – the kids with working mothers who haven't had the time and care devoted to them like it was in earlier times. So: This movie does make you think and draw your own opinions. Also has a great sideline romantic aspect.

Thoroughly entertaining. Highly recommended.

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