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Mona Lisa Smile/Tea with Mus

Mona Lisa Smile/Tea with Mus

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Trio of dramas. *'Mona Lisa Smile' *(2003) is set in 1953 in Wellesley College,* a prestigious women's college in New England with a student population of young women from respectable,* privileged families. On the whole the girls,* products of a time when women's roles were strictly defined,* show more interest in marrying well than in achieving intellectual growth or artistic freedom. But when a new art history professor,* Katherine Watson *(Julia Roberts),* begins teaching at the college,* their repressed upbringings and narrow ideas are brought into question. A Berkeley graduate with progressive ideas,* Watson sets out to stretch her students intellectually,* and challenge their limited outlook on life. In *'Tea With Mussolini' *(1999),* based on the childhood memories of director Franco Zeffirelli,* it is Florence,* 1934,* and a diverse group of women meet each afternoon for tea. There is Lady Hester Ransom *(Maggie Smith),* widow of the British Ambassador to Italy; Arabella *(Judi Dench),* a singer and artist; Georgie *(Lily Tomlin),* an eccentric American archaeologist; Elsa *(Cher),* also an American,* and brash and reckless with it; and finally Mary *(Joan Plowright),* who has virtually adopted a young Italian boy named Luca *(played by Charlie Lucas as a child and Baird Wallace as a teen). As the political climate shifts towards fascism,* the ladies must face some inevitable changes,* and Luca must face his own responsibilities. Finally,* in *'Legends of the Fall' *(1994),* US Cavalry officer Colonel William Ludlow *(Anthony Hopkins) takes early retirement after despairing of the Government's treatment of the Western Tribes. In the remote foothills of the Montana Rockies he builds a ranch where he brings up his three sons. When the youngest son Samuel *(Henry Thomas) returns from the city with beautiful fiancee Susannah *(Julia Ormond),* she attracts the admiration of Alfred and Tristan,* his two brothers *(Brad Pitt and Aidan Quinn)
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Release Date:
2012
Number of Discs:
3
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