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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304079997
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6304079990
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: September 10, 1997
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 37637
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1986
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
You'll have to listen hard to catch all the dialogue in this dark, romantic film by director Neil Jordan. The Cockney accents are thick enough to spread on a crumpet. But it's worth the effort to plunge into the London underworld with tough but lovable thug Bob Hoskins. Just out of prison, he's given a job by his old boss (Michael Caine) as chauffeur to a gorgeous but chilly call girl (Cathy Tyson). For all his criminal experience, this guy is surprisingly innocent; when he develops a crush on the woman he's driving, it leads inevitably to tragedy. Hoskins is heartbreakingly good as this poor, thick sod, while Caine projects an oily malevolence. Tyson is also fine as a woman who has secrets of her own. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - looked good but I needed subtitles
I tried to watch this film twice. I gave up early the first time because I couldn't understand a lot of the dialogue. The Cockney accents did me in. Most of the time the girl spoke is a very low voice and I missed most of what she said.
However it looked so good that I tried again the next evening and got through almost half of it. I could tell that the acting was first rate and I wanted to stick it out. When George, the hero went to sleeze joints and houses of prostitution to find ... Read More
Rating:  - A Bob Hoskins must see
This was my first exposure to Bob Hoskins- and I've been a fan ever since!And it was quite a change to see Michael Caine as a truly nasty guy! Acting is superb, and plot is refreshing. Music was very good too.
Rating: - So What's A Feller to Do?
Upon its 1986 release, "Mona Lisa" was proclaimed a masterpiece of the British crime film drama; it brought the Irish-born Neil Jordan, who'd both written and directed it, to the forefront of working British film directors. Reminded everyone of Nat King Cole's great song. Won its star Bob Hoskins an Academy Award nomination, as well as the Cannes Film Festival and British Academy Awards. It's since been recognized as one of the big three of British noir crime dramas: Michael Caine made "Get Carter," ... Read More
Rating: - Newman's an Icon, but Hoskins Should Have Won
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Dreams Just Lie There, and They Die There
It's a stretch to link the lyrics of Nat King Cole's recording with this movie and its title. Almost any ballad would have served. But it's no stretch at all to see why "Mona Lisa" became a sleeper hit, launched the career of writer-director Neil Jordan, and won Bob Hoskins an Oscar nomination. He plays an ill-tempered ex-con hired to chauffeur a call girl (Cathy Tyson) around to clients. That he will fall for her is a given; so are the tricks that screenwriter Jordan will play on them.
Hoskins ... Read More
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