Mona Lisa Smile is a
2003The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
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that was produced by
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and
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, directed by
Mike NewellMichael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television.-Early life:...
, written by
Lawrence KonnerLawrence Konner, born in Brooklyn, New York, is an American screenwriter and longtime writing partner of Mark Rosenthal.-Career:Konner began as a television writer, writing for the shows Little House on the Prairie, Family and Remington Steele. He and Rosenthal first worked together on the motion...
and Mark Rosenthal, and starring
Julia RobertsJulia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide...
,
Kirsten DunstKirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories . At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the...
,
Maggie GyllenhaalMargaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal is an American stage and screen actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films...
, and
Julia StilesJulia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
. The title is a reference to the
Mona LisaMona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo...
, the famous painting by
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
, and the song of the same name, originally performed by
Nat King ColeNathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat "King" Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz...
, which was covered by
SealSeal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel is an English soul singer and songwriter. His name Olusegun means "God is victorious"...
for the movie. The film is a loose adaptation of
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a novel by
Muriel SparkDame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist.-Early life:She was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh, to a Jewish father and an English mother, and was educated at James Gillespie's High School for Girls...
, and the title also references that text.
Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Ann Watson (played by
Julia RobertsJulia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide...
), a feminist teacher who studied at
UCLAThe University of California, Los Angeles is a research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was founded in 1919 and is the second-oldest general-purpose campus in the University of California system...
graduate school and left as a first-year teacher from "Oakland State" University (thought to be a fictionalized
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
), leaves her boyfriend behind in
Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
in 1953, to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative
women'sWomen's colleges in the United States are U.S. institutions of higher education that exclude or limit males from admission. They are often liberal arts colleges...
privatePrivate schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public funds...
liberal arts collegeLiberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise defines "liberal arts" as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in...
in
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,
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.
Watson tries to open her students' minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives.
Mona Lisa Smile is a
2003The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
that was produced by
Revolution StudiosRevolution Studios was a film production company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth, a former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and Twentieth Century Fox. Revolution was a strategic partner of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which distributed and marketed Revolution's films. The company shut down in October...
and
Columbia PicturesColumbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
, directed by
Mike NewellMichael Cormac "Mike" Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television.-Early life:...
, written by
Lawrence KonnerLawrence Konner, born in Brooklyn, New York, is an American screenwriter and longtime writing partner of Mark Rosenthal.-Career:Konner began as a television writer, writing for the shows Little House on the Prairie, Family and Remington Steele. He and Rosenthal first worked together on the motion...
and Mark Rosenthal, and starring
Julia RobertsJulia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide...
,
Kirsten DunstKirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories . At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the...
,
Maggie GyllenhaalMargaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal is an American stage and screen actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films...
, and
Julia StilesJulia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
. The title is a reference to the
Mona LisaMona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo...
, the famous painting by
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
, and the song of the same name, originally performed by
Nat King ColeNathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat "King" Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz...
, which was covered by
SealSeal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel is an English soul singer and songwriter. His name Olusegun means "God is victorious"...
for the movie. The film is a loose adaptation of
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a novel by
Muriel SparkDame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist.-Early life:She was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh, to a Jewish father and an English mother, and was educated at James Gillespie's High School for Girls...
, and the title also references that text.
Plot
Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Ann Watson (played by
Julia RobertsJulia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide...
), a feminist teacher who studied at
UCLAThe University of California, Los Angeles is a research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was founded in 1919 and is the second-oldest general-purpose campus in the University of California system...
graduate school and left as a first-year teacher from "Oakland State" University (thought to be a fictionalized
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines...
), leaves her boyfriend behind in
Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
in 1953, to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative
women'sWomen's colleges in the United States are U.S. institutions of higher education that exclude or limit males from admission. They are often liberal arts colleges...
privatePrivate schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than relying on public funds...
liberal arts collegeLiberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise defines "liberal arts" as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in...
in
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,
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.
Watson tries to open her students' minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. She encourages her students to believe in themselves, to study to become career professionals, and to improve their economic futures. She uses her
modern artModern art refers to artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
teachings as a vehicle to put across her opinion to the young women that her students need not conform to stereotypes of women made by society. She felt that Modern art was a questioning of the status quo and could be used as an eye-opener for her students that were confused about their role in 1950's society, even introducing the students to the work of
Jackson PollockPaul Jackson Pollock was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of...
a member of the art avant garde at the time. She feels that women could do more things in life than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers. In one scene of the movie, she shows her students four newspaper ads, and asks them to question what the future will think of the idea that women are born into the roles of wives and mothers.
Watson's ideas and ways of teaching are contrary to methods deemed acceptable by the school's directors, conservative women who believe firmly that Watson should not use her class to express her points of views or befriend students, and should stick only to teaching art. Watson is warned that she could lose her job if she continues to interact with students as she has been doing.
Undaunted, Watson becomes stronger in her speeches about
feminismThe term Feminism can be used to describe an academic discourse, or to describe a political, cultural or economic movement aimed at establishing more rights and legal protection for women...
and the future of women. She is a firm believer that the outlook of women in society needed to be changed if women were to achieve better futures, and that she needs to instill a spirit of change among her students.
Watson eventually breaks things off with her boyfriend, Paul Moore (
John SlatteryJohn M. Slattery, Jr. is an American actor.Aside from his current Emmy nominated role as Roger Sterling on AMC's series Mad Men, some of his more notable television roles have included union organizer Al Kahn on Homefront; Senator Walter Mondale in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon;...
), after a disastrous wedding proposal during a visit of his from California. She eventually starts a relationship with Italian teacher Bill Dunbar (
Dominic WestDominic West is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire.-Biography:...
). Although the relationship is frowned upon by the faculty at Wellesley College, due to inter-office romances being discouraged, the two continue seeing each other. However, Watson ends the relationship after finding out that West lied about his military service as he did not serve in Europe during
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, but was rather stationed in America.
The film also focuses on the lives of various students of Watson's, chief among them: Elizabeth "Betty" Warren (Jones) (
Kirsten DunstKirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories . At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the...
), a rich girl with a conservative, domineering mother (who, as head of the Alumni Association, exerts significant power and influence at Wellesley) who marries a man who is unfaithful to her, and also clashes constantly with Watson's teaching style; Constance "Connie" Baker (
Ginnifer GoodwinGinnifer Goodwin is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Margene Heffman on the HBO series Big Love.-Personal life:...
), who has insecurities about her body while searching for a boyfriend; Giselle Levy (
Maggie GyllenhaalMargaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal is an American stage and screen actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films...
), one of the few Jewish students at Wellesley at the time, who has affairs with teachers - including, at one point, with Bill Dunbar - and older married men, but who is also one of the first student to admire Watson; and Joan Brandwyn (Donegal) (
Julia StilesJulia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
), who is initially conflicted about whether to pursue law school after graduation or become a housewife to eventual husband Tommy Donegal (
Topher GraceChristopher John "Topher" Grace is an American actor, best known for playing the lead role of Eric Forman on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show for seven of the show's eight seasons, and the villain Eddie Brock, Jr./Venom in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3.-Early life:Grace was born in New York City, New...
).
Although many of the students are initially put off by Watson's style, as the film progresses, more and more begin to come around and in many cases admire her. Even Betty comes around at the end of movie, despite being her most vocal and vehement critic.
Watson chooses to leave after the one year, but, as she is leaving the campus for the last time, her students run after her car, to show their affection and to thank her for her lessons. The entire departure scene is narrated by Betty who dedicates her last editorial to Watson, explicitly stating that Watson is "an extraordinary woman" and an individual who "seeks truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image." The film ends as Betty desperately struggles to keep up with Watson's taxi as it speeds up, thereby portraying her admiration and respect for Watson.
Reaction from Wellesley alumnae
In
a message to Wellesley alumnae concerning the film, Wellesley College president
Diana Chapman WalshDiana Chapman Walsh was President of Wellesley College, from 1993 to 2007. During her tenure, the college revised its curriculum and expanded its programs in global education, internships and service learning, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning...
expressed some degree of regret concerning the distressed reactions of some Wellesley alumnae to the film. Many alumnae who attended Wellesley during the 1950s felt that the film's portrayal of Wellesley as a stodgy, conservative college was inaccurate.
Campus controversy
During the filming of
Mona Lisa Smile, the Wellesley College campus broke into controversy surrounding the casting of student extras. The use of the phrase "not too tan" in a casting call for current Wellesley students sparked a fear that Casting Directors were using race to discriminate against potential extras. Producers claimed that they were merely stressing the importance of finding women that had the "look of 1953", but later their response to the growing concern was that the film could not reflect the current Wellesley demographic, and had to be "accurate" to the period.
Students presented their concerns to president
Diana Chapman WalshDiana Chapman Walsh was President of Wellesley College, from 1993 to 2007. During her tenure, the college revised its curriculum and expanded its programs in global education, internships and service learning, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning...
to no avail, and began a campus-wide guerrilla campaign entitled "Too Tan for Mona Lisa Smile", with a photo roster of African-American students denied the chance to participate in the film as student extras.
Student Multicultural Affairs Coordinator Jenna O. Bond-Louden claimed that the film overrepresented the
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n student population, which was believed to be approximately three in 1953 (as the "Asian" ethnic group is not listed in the college's records), and underrepresented African-Americans: only one of the about 200 extras in the film was African-American (in reality there were 12 African-American students enrolled in a total student population of 1685, so with 200 extras approximately 1.4 of them should have been African-American).
The controversy spilled over into the local media, and producers considered a compromise of hiring willing minority students to act as production assistants. The college released
a press statement highlighting the realities of Wellesley in 1953, and defending their decision to allow the film to shoot on campus. When the film's lead cast was featured on
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, a select group of African-American students were allowed to attend the show's taping, including the "Too Tan for Mona Lisa Smile" leader.
Students also protested the lack of concern by the studio for their ability to attend classes as normal with the blocking of pathways, streets, and buildings during the eight days of shooting the film. Producers initially tried to adhere to the class schedule by not shooting in open areas immediately before and after classes, but that lasted only a short while. Student extras frustrated professors by missing class and important exams, and the entire campus began to speak out against the film's presence.
Places and their references
- The classroom in which Julia Roberts teaches is in fact a Chemistry classroom in Columbia University's Havemeyer Hall
Havemeyer Hall is an historic academic building located in Columbia University in New York City.It was built built between 1896 and 1898 under the direction of Charles Frederick Chandler and named after Columbia graduate Frederick Christian Havermeyer. The building is one of six original buildings...
, Havemeyer 309.
- The office of Professor Bill Dunbar (played by actor Dominic West
Dominic West is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire.-Biography:...
) is actually the Wellesley College quad; a grouping of four dormitories on the campus.
- Some of the exteriors for Wellesley College and Harvard were, in fact, shot in the same courtyard at Yale
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's Silliman CollegeSilliman College is a residential college at Yale University. It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901...
.
- The train station scene was shot at the Glen Ridge
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near NewarkBrick City redirects here. For the township in Ocean County, see Brick Township, New Jersey.Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, and the county seat of Essex County. Newark has a population of 281,402, making it the largest municipality in New Jersey and the 65th largest city in the U.S...
.
Cast
- Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide...
- Katherine Watson
- Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, model, and singer. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories . At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the...
- Elizabeth "Betty" Warren (Jones)
- Ginnifer Goodwin
Ginnifer Goodwin is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Margene Heffman on the HBO series Big Love.-Personal life:...
- Constance "Connie" Baker
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal is an American stage and screen actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She made her screen debut when she began to appear in her father's films...
- Giselle Levy
- Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. She has appeared in films, television, and the theatre. Harden is a winner of the Tony Award and the Academy Award.-Early life:...
- Nancy Abbey
- Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
- Joan Brandwyn (Donegal)
- Marian Seldes
Marian Hall Seldes is an American award-winning stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
- President Jocelyn Carr
- Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson CBE is an English actress of stage and screen.- Background :Juliet Anne Virginia Stevens was born in Essex, England, the daughter of Virginia Ruth , a teacher, and Michael Guy Stevens, an army officer...
- Amanda Armstrong
- Dominic West
Dominic West is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire.-Biography:...
- Bill Dunbar
- John Slattery
John M. Slattery, Jr. is an American actor.Aside from his current Emmy nominated role as Roger Sterling on AMC's series Mad Men, some of his more notable television roles have included union organizer Al Kahn on Homefront; Senator Walter Mondale in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon;...
- Paul Moore
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Ebon Moss-Bachrach is an American stage and screen actor. He attended high school at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts and graduated from Columbia University.-Filmography:...
- Charlie Stewart
- Topher Grace
Christopher John "Topher" Grace is an American actor, best known for playing the lead role of Eric Forman on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show for seven of the show's eight seasons, and the villain Eddie Brock, Jr./Venom in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3.-Early life:Grace was born in New York City, New...
- Tommy Donegal
- Emily Bauer
Emily Bauer is an American singer, dancer, actress and voice actress. She is also credited as Emily Blau.-Biography:...
- Art History Student
- Tori Amos
Tori Amos is a pianist and singer-songwriter of American citizenship. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
- Wedding Singer
- Lisa Roberts Gillan
Lisa Roberts Gillan is an American actress.-Early life:Roberts was born in Decatur, Georgia. Her mother, Betty Lou Motes , was a one-time church secretary and real estate agent, and her father, Walter Grady Roberts, was a vacuum cleaner salesman...
- Miss Albini
- Taylor Roberts - Louise
- Mary Pascoe - Photographer (as Mary S. Pascoe)
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