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Mona Lisa Smile
Why this pick
Like Miss Brodie, it centres on an unconventional, charismatic teacher challenging a girls’ school’s prescribed values, but with a warmer, more openly feminist perspective.
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MOVIE1969 1h 56m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a teacher in the junior-aged section of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 1930s. Brodie is known for her tendency to stray from the hard knowledge of the school's curriculum, to romanticize fascist leaders like Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, and to believe herself to be in the prime of life. Brodie devotes her time and energy to her four special 12-year-old junior school girls, called the Brodie Set: Sandy (Pamela Franklin), Monica (Shirley Steedman), Jenny (Diane Grayson) and Mary (Jane Carr).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie
Robert Stephens
Teddy Lloyd
Ann Way
Miss Gaunt
Celia Johnson
Miss McKay
Pamela Franklin
Sandy
Gordon Jackson
Gordon Lowther
Jane Carr
Mary McGregor
Shirley Steedman
Monica