Several years ago, screenwriting partners Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal (Jewel of the Nile, Planet of the Apes) read an article about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s years at Wellesley College in the 1960s. “By the 60s the Wellesley curriculum had already been modernized and the students took their choices for granted,” says Rosenthal. “But we wondered…
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Taglines: In a world that told them how to think, she showed them how to live. 1953 America was a time ripe for change for women and when Katherine Ann Willis (Julia Roberts) arrives to teach Art History at Wellesley College, she finds the institution drowning in outdated mores. While the nation struggles with the…