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Mona Lisa Smile
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3464
- IMDb #3156
- Google retired #793
- Rotten Tomatoes #3900
- Metacritic #3562
- Letterboxd #1450
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4587
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3273
- Metacritic Critics #3838
- Metacritic Audience #2747
- Criticker #3072
- Douban #644
- Kinopoisk #824
- AlloCiné #3387
- Trakt #1833
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 33, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 39, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A free-thinking art history professor from California takes a teaching position at the prestigious and conservative Wellesley College in the 1950s. She challenges her brilliant but tradition-bound students to question the societal expectations that assume they will become wives and mothers instead of pursuing careers.
Details
- Director
- Mike Newell
- Writers
- Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
- Studio
- Revolution Studios, Red Om Films
- Released
- 19 December 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $72.3M
- Box office
- $141.3M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Best Original Song 2003 | Best Original Song | Elton John Bernie Taupin | Nominee |
| Best Original Song 2003 | Best Original Song | Elton John | Nominee |
| Best Song 2003 | Best Song | Elton John Bernie Taupin | Nominee |
| Best Use of Previously Published or Recorded Music 2003 | Best Use of Previously Published or Recorded Music | N/a | Nominee |
| Choice Movie - Sleazebag 2003 | Choice Movie - Sleazebag | Kirsten Dunst | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress - Drama/Action-Adventure 2003 | Choice Movie Actress - Drama/Action-Adventure | Julia Stiles | Nominee |
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6 awards — Mona Lisa Smile
×| Best Original Song | Elton John Bernie Taupin | Nominee |
| Best Original Song | Elton John | Nominee |
| Best Song | Elton John Bernie Taupin | Nominee |
| Best Use of Previously Published or Recorded Music | N/a | Nominee |
| Choice Movie - Sleazebag | Kirsten Dunst | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress - Drama/Action-Adventure | Julia Stiles | Nominee |