In 1953, free-spirited Berkeley graduate Katherine Watson accepts a position as a teacher at Wellesley College, a women-only school where she finds students who are torn between their thirst for intellectual freedom and the repressive mores of the early 1950s. Original. (A Revolution Studios film, written by Larry Konner & Mark Rosenthal, directed by Mike Newell, starring Julia Roberts, Marcia Gay Harden, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, & Maggie Gyllenhaal) (General Fiction)