Mona Lisa

George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

Cast

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

as George

Cathy Tyson

Cathy Tyson

as Simone

Michael Caine

Michael Caine

as Mortwell

Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane

as Thomas

Clarke Peters

Clarke Peters

as Anderson

Kate Hardie

Kate Hardie

as Cathy

Zoë Nathenson

Zoë Nathenson

as Jeannie

Sammi Davis

Sammi Davis

as May

Joe Brown

Joe Brown

as Self

Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville

as George's Wife

Reviews

JPV852

Really good British neo-noir featuring great performances from Bob Hoskins and the lovely Cathy Tyson who share some nice scenes together and a pretty melancholy ending. Michael Caine is great as a classy scumbag (seems like he played many of these roles in the 70s and 80s). This is the second time ...

Peter McGinn

I had watched this movie many years ago, but not to remember much of it, so with the fairly positive ratings and Bob Hoskins, it felt like a safe bet. But there wasn’t as much humor as I thought I remembered, and the plot of a guy trying to “rescue” a hooker seems rather stereotypical and predictabl...

CinemaSerf

Bob Hoskins is entirely convincing as the increasingly conflicted and crotchety petty criminal “George” who has just been released after a seven year stretch as a guest of Her Majesty. He has been released into a world that doesn’t really want him any more, and so he is relegated to driving high cla...

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