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starring: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood directed by: Scott Hicks Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780780617551 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 078061755X Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Release Date: December 02, 1997 Running Time: 105 minutes Sales Rank: 19105 Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1996 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: This tearjerker by Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks is a surprising story about real-life classical pianist David Helfgott, an Australian who rose to international prominence at a very young age in the 1950s and '60s, and suffered a psychological collapse after enduring years of abuse from his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Hicks has three very fine actors portraying Helfgott at different stages of his life, including the adorably wry and goofy Noah Taylor (Flirting), who takes up the character's teen years, and Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, giving a great performance playing the musician as a schizophrenic adult. Despite the Helfgotts' compromised psychological health, Shine is hardly a depressing experience. If anything, the story is really about how long one person's life can take to make glorious sense of itself. Sir John Gielgud, in golden form, plays Helfgott's teacher. The DVD release presents the film in its widescreen format, and also includes a Q&A with director Hicks and Rush's Golden Globes acceptance speech. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fathers have to be estranged from their sons.That's a marvelous but cruel film. Cruel to us in its beauty. Cruel to David in his complete estrangement from the world of noise lost that he is in his world of music. How can you be deaf to anything but music? It is possible, even if that sounds crazy, if that is a mental lunacy. The film tries to get us to two conclusions. The first one is that a father can be right but only for a short while. A son has to get away from his father as soon as he can otherwise he might be destroyed, utterly destroyed. ... Read More Rating:  - Shine - Terrible packagingThis DVD has TERRIBLE packaging. Once you have opened the DVD case by breaking the plastic seal, it will never close properly again. I didn't do anything wrong - you're supposed to break the plastic seals - but it's just terrible! Scroll down to the 'Snapper' type case: http://www.andreas-lenz.de/dvd/casetypes/index.php Rating: - loving and caring !Even my 8 and 10 year old children loved this movie which inspired them to practise harder their piano lessons ! The story needed some explainations for them but then made my children think for days about it. They finally understood how own behavior can influence especially weaker persons and that you have to be aware of it... A very loving and caring story ! Rating: - Tearjerking euphoriaWonderful tearjerker showing some of life's excesses. Stunning music and a euphorius ending that will set free any suppressed emotions.... Rating: - SHINE-A MUST SEE FOR PIANO MUSIC LOVERSthis is a must see for all people who love piano music-also a very good story. |
