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Playing Mona Lisa is a film of genre Comedy released in USA on 1 may 2000 with Alicia Witt
Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
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Add to a movie listPlaying Mona Lisa is a comedy film released in 2000, directed by Matthew Huffman and starring Alicia Witt, Harvey Fierstein, Johnny Galecki, Elliott Gould, Marlo Thomas, Molly Hagan and Brooke Langton. It is based on a play by Marni Freedman.
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Everything goes wrong all at once in gifted 23-year-old pianist Claire Goldstein's life. San Francisco has an earthquake, she loses her apartment, her boyfriend Jeremy dumps her and she misses out on an important piano competition.Actors
Alicia Witt
(Claire Goldstein)
Harvey Fierstein
(Bennett)
Brooke Langton
(Sabrina)
Johnny Galecki
(Arthur)
Ivan Sergei
(Eddie / Carl / Ben)
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