Mona Lisa Smile - Dead Poets' Society Sans D@*ks

OK. I get that it's a genre piece - but can we try a bit of variation, for God's sake?

First of all, Dead Poets' Society was bad enough, what with the comical ending in which they all conform in their non-conformity.

The twist - that it's a woman at a woman's school - does not a new story make, so we just see the same old tired cliches played out again.

Quite frankly, I don't even get the mania for locating these damn movies in the elite private schools of the 1950's - unless it is to show us "how far we've come" - which strikes me as little more than a way of NOT showing how much more we need to do.

Jeez. I thought Julia Roberts would have picked something better than this trash.

Maybe we can ask Madeline Albright since she was there. Oh wait, she was the higehst ranking woman in US gov't history. I guess she knows her place.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/MonaLisaSmile-1128264/


After "Pretty Woman", I've avoided evrything with slinky-neck Roberts in it like the plague.

Goodbye Mr. Chips
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
To Sir with Love
Conrack


You're right - it's the SAME MOVIE -