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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Music /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Scott Hicks
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Actors:
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Chris Haywood,
Nicholas Bell,
Gordon Poole,
Justin Braine,
Alex Rafalowicz,
Danielle Cox,
Rebecca Gooden,
Marta Kaczmarek,
John Cousins,
Paul Linkson,
Geoffrey Rush,
Sonia Todd,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Noah Taylor,
Randall Berger
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Duration:
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105 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)146.5
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the reliable copy of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the initially and traumatic early years. the information in flashback we divine David as he grows up and into a child walking dictionary while his sire abuses him and his siblings with the tribute of his minority in Europe and the loss of his lineage in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his dad and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Innumerable years later he is released and through discrete twists of... doom (in reality unruffled more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a balk before once returning to the concert auditorium.
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good sentiment badly edited
I thought this film was a really interesting topic, but I found the editing really annoying. Particularly the end of the performance of Rackmaninov's 3rd concerto.
Geoffrey Rush was brilliant as the disturbed adult David, but it did not explain exactly how he become thus- or I missed something. I assume this was a biography, perhaps you were meant to know something about the real life story, which I did not.
An Excellent Drama
A well-crafted film about an emotionally abused but gifted boy. Harrowing at times but necessary for explaining the story.Geoffrey Rush is amazing so its well worth the rent just for that! Highly recommend a look, it will bring an unexpected smile to your face!
Shine
Although reservations hold been expressed round the correctness of the "facts" in this film based on the life of gifted but completely troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott, the resulting drama is still an exhilarating and uplifting paravent experience. While it was Geoffrey who took many of the plaudits, including the best bib actor Oscar quest of his stunning bringing off as Helfgott, it's the cinematic acumen of director Scott Hicks that prevents this often harrowing dispatch from turning into melodramatic mush. From the over-looked Noah Taylor as the young Helfgott, Googie Withers as the writer who launched Helfgott's career to the core to Lynn Redgrave as the future wife who saved him, the performances are of an gorgeous quality, with an astonishing screen i...
Shine
Moving, superbly acted drama of tragedy and redemption that brilliantly evokes a chain's alienation from his roots and his disintegration, as well as his re-manifestation into the world.
Shine
Teenage pianist David (Taylor) has all the run-of-the-mill problems and then some. His father, a Polish-Jewish immigrant in...
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