Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst,
Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Columbia Pictures; Directed by Mike Newell
Rated PG-13; 117 minutes; 2003

In 1953, free-spirited UCLA graduate Katherine Watson is hired to teach art history at a prestigious, and very old fashioned, all female college. Katherine wants to teach her students, but more importantly, she wants to show them a world outside the traditions that have been laid out for them. She wants them to challenge the paths that they are all expected to take.