Drama Won't Make It to Top of the Class ; Damon Smith Reviews the Latest Cinema Releases Mona Lisa Smile (12a,119mins) Drama. Julia Roberts,Kirsten Dunst,Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal,Ginnifer Goodwin,Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson,Marcia Gay Harden,John Slattery, Topher Grace.

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AMERICAN college administrator William Arthur Ward once noted: "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

Mona Lisa Smile is a syrupy tale of scholarly ambition about a great teacher who inspires her flock of impressionable young girls to flaunt convention and follow their dreams.

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Drama Won't Make It to Top of the Class ; Damon Smith Reviews the Latest Cinema Releases Mona Lisa Smile (12a,119mins) Drama. Julia Roberts,Kirsten Dunst,Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal,Ginnifer Goodwin,Dominic West, Juliet Stevenson,Marcia Gay Harden,John Slattery, Topher Grace.

Recent UCLA graduate Katherine Watson (Roberts)moves from California to leafy New England to take up an art history teaching position at Wellesley...

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