It's with great felicity, beatitude, gusto and other big words that we don't understand that we must announce that Mona Lisa Smile is one movie that contains nothing that is even quasi sine qua non. Rats! More big words we don't understand.
But what we do understand is that Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, a teacher of art-history who is committed to shattering the stereotypes that women feel compelled to conform to in 1950s America.
The year is 1953. Katherine Watson is a progressive feminist. That explains the very contemporary hair-do that she sports in this perio....