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Music Box
1989
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects. Read more
| Starring | Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
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| Director | Costa Gravas |
| Genres | Drama |
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Music Box
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
| Starring | Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
|---|---|
| Director | Costa Gravas |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Dec 2005 Production year: 1989 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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In Costa-Gavras's political melodrama, Jessica Lange stars as a lawyer who defends her blue-collar Hungarian father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) from a charge of being the leader of an SS-run death squad during the Second World War. Courtroom battles generally make riveting viewing and this is no exception. We are kept on a knife-edge of suspense as we wonder if the now kindly veteran could have been a hideous monster in his past. The film raises more questions than it answers and Costa-Gavras's direction is perhaps a little too detached, but the intensity of Lange and Mueller-Stahl more than makes amends.
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An effectively melodramatic courtroom drama, but no more than that, despite winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1990.
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Most helpful member's review
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What did you do in the war Daddy?
Joe Eszterhaz is not one of my favourite screen writers-remember Showgirls-but this is a class above anything else he has done for the screen.
The story of a father accused of war crimes is based on his own experience-his Hungarian father was similarly accused.
Acting excellent and while certain aspects of the plot are too neatly resolved it's got to be appreciated that this is a Hollywood movie not a documentary.
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Most recent members' review
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What did you do in the war Daddy?
Joe Eszterhaz is not one of my favourite screen writers-remember Showgirls-but this is a class above anything else he has done for the screen.
The story of a father accused of war crimes is based on his own experience-his Hungarian father was similarly accused.
Acting excellent and while certain aspects of the plot are too neatly resolved it's got to be appreciated that this is a Hollywood movie not a documentary.
A good watch. -
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