Mona Lisa
by Neil Jordan
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Actor: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Clarke Peters, Michael Caine, Robbie ColtraneDirector: Neil Jordan
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Neil Jordan
Producer: Chris Brown
Producer: Denis O'Brien
Producer: George Harrison
Producer: Nik Powell
Producer: Patrick Cassavetti
Writer: David Leland
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Mona Lisa
Movie Review: Newman's an Icon, but Hoskins Should Have Won
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, the Hollywood gossip is that Paul Newman won the Academy Award for best actor that year not really for his performance in "The Color of Money" but for all the other great performances he was nominated for but didn't win. Eg. "Cool Hand Luke", "Hud" etc. "Color" was, at best, a mediocre film with an okay performance by the cast and no one seriously believes it was in the same category as "Mona Lisa."
I can't add much to what others have already pointed out. How does an actor portray a not too bright, tough, small time hood who has a big heart? It could not have been an easy thing to do, but Hoskins did it brilliantly. From the beginning of the film where he walks across the bridge to the hopeful conclusion when he walks down the road with his daughter and his best friend, you believe and root for this character. He is small time and likely to remain so. But he is by no means a loser. And with that optimistic closing, perhaps Neil Jordan wanted the audience to know that George's daughter would be saved, by his love and his genuine decency, from the same horrid, sleazy fate as Simone or Kathy. It brought tears to my eyes, anyway.
A word about Michael Caine. He is, as usual, terrific. I said in another review that he can play just about anything. (Walter Matthau was one of the few other movie stars to share this ability.) Evil and despicable ("Mona Lisa"), clumsy and romantic ("Hannah and her Sisters"), ruthless ("Get Carter"), funny and rascally ("The Man Who Would be King") and, of course, cool ("The Ipcress File"). I think he once said in an interview that he told Bob Hoskins that the two of them appeared in the three greatest British crime films ever made. He in "Get Carter", Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday" and the both of them in "Mona Lisa."
"Mona Lisa" is bleak and at times tough to watch, but it's one of the best films of the eighties. Five stars.
Summary of Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins ? in the once-in-a-lifetime role that earned him an Oscar® nomination and won both the Cannes Film Festival and British Academy Awards for Best Actor ? stars as George, a brutish mob soldier in the London underworld who has just been released from prison. Anxious for work, he?s given the job of chauffeuring elegant prostitute Simone (Cathy Tyson, in her stunning film debut) by gangster boss Mortwell (an unforgettable performance by Michael Caine). What follows is the film CBS Morning News calls "vivid and astonishing," a remarkable combination of uncommon love story and shocking thriller that remains one of the most startling dramas of the decade. Robbie Coltrane(OCEAN?S TWELVE), Clarke Peters (THE WIRE) and Sammi Davis (HOMEFRONT) co-star in this internationally acclaimed smash directed and co-written by Neil Jordan that was nominated for 6 British Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Direction and Best Film.Similar DVD Movies
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