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Shine

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starring: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood directed by: Scott Hicks See Larger Image List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 (25%) as of 03/20/2010 17:17 EDT Used Price: $3.82 Collectible Price: $29.99 Third Party New Price: $3.99 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO EAN: 9780780619586 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780619587 Label: New Line Home Video Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: DN4546D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 16, 1997 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1996 Related Items: My Left Foot (Special Edition) Shine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Quiz Show A Beautiful Mind David Helfgott Plays Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3; Four Preludes; Sonata No. 2 see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: SHINE IS THE COMPELLING AND POIGNANT STORY OF A YOUNG MAN WHO DEFIES HIS FATHER'S WISHES IN ORDER OT PURSUE HIS DREAMS. BOTH THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND POWERFUL, IT TELLS A STORY OF REBELLION AND OF INDIVIDUALITY THROUGH THE EYES OF A PIANIST WHOSE ONLY FORM OF SELF EXPRESSION IS FOUND IN THE KEYS OF HIS INSTRUMENT. 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 Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - shine Since I live in Europe, I was not aware that the dvd that are purchased in the USA are only for widescreen. So we are not able to watch this dvd on our TV. Is there a solution? kind regards, Rita Rating: - Very Very Good Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RXXCA3PDS8L8F Rating: - Intense, Well-Acted, Nicley Photographed Movie This was a very interesting movie and pleasant surprise, although sometimes that theme of the obsessive parent driving a kid crazy gets overworked. Nonetheless, it's a very well-made movie. Geoffrey Rush is fascinating in the lead role as "David Helfgott." However, I would give equal kudos to Noah Taylor, who played Helfgott as a teenager, and to Armin Mueller-Stahl, who was Helfgott's father. They were just as impressive as Rush. This is a supposedly true-life story of ... Read More 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 packaging This 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 see more

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