Shine (1996)
Genre: Drama / Biography
Duration: 105 minuten
Country:
Australia
Directed by: Scott Hicks
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Sonia Todd
IMDb score:
7,6 (58.967)
Releasedate: 15 August 1996
Shine plot
"A true story of the mystery of music and the miracle of love"
Australian pianist David Helfgott grew up as a child prodigy. His father treats him badly, so David eventually decides to break up with him and go to college in England. However, he suffers a mental breakdown, and he returns to his homeland to spend his time in an institution. Years later, he once again starts playing the piano in a bar, which leads to a return to the concert halls. Based on a true story.
Actors and actresses
Peter
David as an adolescent
David as an adult
Gillian
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Sylvia
Ben Rosen
Cecil Parkes
Tony
Sam
Reviews & comments
Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Normal.
I actually found this to be quite lacking in the end, except that I thought it was an ok biography/drama. I hadn't heard of this David Helfgott before, so that was all new. I haven't been much involved with pianists, so I didn't know this one.
The film is quite captivating, but that's about it. Childhood is the most interesting part, especially that father is an interesting character to look at the first part. After that it's less interesting.
I think Rush is a good actor, but I couldn't help but think it was all a bit too exaggerated. Very irritating all of which sometimes has to be funny? I didn't think that was real and very rarely did I get real emotion. Only the scene where the father was listening to his son on the radio was strong
Other than that I think this is just normal. Quite annoying at times, but in general it looks good and the life of this Helfgott is brought just enough. For the rest, this gets a pass, but not a high.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Impressive tour-de-force by Noah Taylor and Geoffrey Rush as the brilliant pianist whose mental health is broken by his tyrannical father, a traumatized survivor of the Holocaust. Although the film is inspired by the life of the pianist David Helfgott, the whole thing did not particularly appeal to me. From the moment that Helfgott chooses his own path, the story barely captivated me. Rachmaninov's music is not for me and that makes a difference of course. Armin Mueller-Stahl is very typecast.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Solid biography about a contemporary maestro at the piano keyboard. Very nice and handsome scenes when Geoffrey Rush gets into the hands of Helfgott. I can't describe it better than JoeCabot above. Top notch acting.
In addition, I also found the pieces with the hard father intriguing, in which the cool, distant, but also arbitrary relationship was central. But that was it for me too. For the rest, little fascinated watched the film that otherwise excelled in nothing.
Nice to see once, but no more than that.
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