Mona Lisa
George is a small-time crook just out of prison and now he manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. But his troubles just start when he agrees to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days...
1969, UK
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
1960, England, UK
14 March 1933, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
17 July 1961, Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
1948, Guyana
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
17 June 1942, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
31 July 1936, Brighouse, Yorkshire, England, UK
12 June 1965, Liverpool, England, UK
October 11, 2014
A dreary but compelling romantic crime thriller about love being the important ingredient in life.
July 06, 2011
The bracing peaks of image, acting, and narrative architecture handily win the day over a scenario that always feels more like a willfully engineered exercise than a fully plausible reality.
June 24, 2006
A wonderful achievement, a dark film with a generous heart in the shape of an extraordinarily touching performance from Hoskins.
August 29, 2010
As a study of social façades as a means of social climbing, and as a character study of Hoskins' would-be angel, Mona Lisa excels... [Blu-ray]
January 01, 2000
In an era when movies about love almost always invariably devolve into formulaic affairs, Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa stands out as an often-surprising, multi-layered achievement.
March 26, 2009
Skillfully combines comedy and thriller, romance and sleaze.
January 01, 2000
The movie's ending is a little too neat for my taste. But in a movie like this, everything depends on atmosphere and character, and Mona Lisa knows exactly what it is doing.
May 20, 2003
It's like watching the departure of an ocean liner. After all of the initial excitement, you're left on the dock, alone, wondering what all the fuss was about.
May 06, 2014
A superb cast lead by Bob Hoskins in the performance of his career.
April 20, 2010
A detailed, thoughtful film that sensitively explores the emotions within its seedy, exploitative milieu.
April 20, 2010
No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than a Chaplin tramp.
June 17, 2011
The acting of Bob Hoskins in Jordan's disturbing Odd Couple tale is superb.
