Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Sappy & sloppy. Free-thinking teacher comes and wakes up the housewives-to-be at an all-girls college…but she learns a thing or two as well! What a surprise!
Takes far too many shortcuts, e.g.: her out-of-nowhere relationship/break-up with the Italian professor and Dunst's ice-princess with a breaking heart. There are some good facets, but they're dragged down by the rest of the predictable film. Obviously striving to be a female Dead Poet's Society -- but it misses the mark by a wide margin.
C-
Takes far too many shortcuts, e.g.: her out-of-nowhere relationship/break-up with the Italian professor and Dunst's ice-princess with a breaking heart. There are some good facets, but they're dragged down by the rest of the predictable film. Obviously striving to be a female Dead Poet's Society -- but it misses the mark by a wide margin.
C-
posted by MeMe | 7:30 PM
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