Music Box (1989)
by Costa-Gavras
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Actor: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Donald Moffat, Frederic Forrest, Jessica Lange, Lukas HaasDirector: Costa-Gavras
Cinematographer: Patrick Blossier
Editor: Jo?le Van Effenterre
Producer: Hal W. Polaire
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Producer: Joe Eszterhas
Writer: Joe Eszterhas
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Hungarian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 124 minutes
Release Date: 1999-02-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Live / Artisan
Studio: Live / Artisan
VHS Movie Reviews of Music Box (1989)
Movie Review: A Complex Exploration of Loyalties & Ethics
Summary: 5 Stars
While the specific story is about Nazis, Jessica Lange's portrayal of a daughter struggling to maintain her high opinion of her father in the face of mounting dark evidence does justice to such a terrible dilemma. This is a truly remarkable, if disturbing, film.Movie Review: FANTASTIC!
Summary: 5 Stars
An exciting, nail biting, hearting breaking movie. One of Jessic Lange's best! A Must See!!!Movie Review: Hollyweird gives itself a face job! [Three-and-a-half stars out of amazon's liberal five ratings]
Summary: 3 Stars
In trying to make an Anti-Revisionist film,
the Hollyweird Establishment instead did a
number on itself with this Anti-anti-Revis-
ionist piece about an Amer-I-Can attorney
(Jessica Lange) who defends her innocent
Hungarian father against claims of the
'holacau$t' tm.
The films prattles on about the 'holacau$t',
tm, but comes to a proper ending. Too bad it
didn't work out so well for Frank Wallus, a
Pole, or Rad Artokovic. Any anti-communist
who came to this country after WWII ending
up being suspect to the Elizabeth Holtzman
jewi$h-NAZI OSI persecutors. Hollywood, here
and with Errol Morris fine Indie about the
Fall and Rise of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., bas-
ically got MOST of it right...
Movie Review: Awesome movie! Full of Plot Twists and Turns!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie for a rainy Sunday Afternoon. If you are into old-fashioned mysteries, this is the movie for youMovie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The first time I saw this movie I first thought it was slow paced but loved the ending! Watching it over, there so much more to it and the scenery is awesome.
Summary of Music Box (1989)
This 1989 drama penned by pre-Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is a powerful tale of family identity and loyalty threatened by a ghost from the Third Reich. Jessica Lange stars as a Chicago criminal attorney whose beloved immigrant father (Armin Mueller-Stahl, in his American film debut) is accused of once having been a monstrous SS officer for Hitler. While Lange's character does a good job defending the old man in court against witnesses who charge him with numerous unspeakable acts, her own certainty that he is innocent slowly crumbles, leaving her with a horrifying personal dilemma. Directed by Costa-Gavras (Z), the film displays some of his distracting tendency toward unnecessarily broad storytelling, but Eszterhas's script is disciplined and moving, and Lange and Mueller-Stahl are stunning in their depiction of a loving relationship deeply shaken by history. --Tom KeoghJewish Heritage Video
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