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| Music Box | 
| Director: Costa-gavras
Actors: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (21 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11917
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Published), Spanish (Published)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 126 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: IVED11710D
UPC: 012236117100
EAN: 0012236117100
ASIN: B00008RV0G
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: January 1990
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Description
Music Box provides celebrated director Costa-gavras another opportunity to weave a story of nail-biting suspense with frightening political overtones. In this intense courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence, but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past. When a hospitalized witness is suddenly located in Budapest, the trial moves to her father's homeland. Here crucial testimony plus Ann's personal investigation lead to astonishing results.
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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 Keogh
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 A Complex Exploration of Loyalties & Ethics August 31, 2008
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.
FANTASTIC! June 4, 2008
An exciting, nail biting, hearting breaking movie. One of Jessic Lange's best! A Must See!!!
 Hollyweird gives itself a face job! [Three-and-a-half stars out of amazon's liberal five ratings] May 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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...
Awesome movie! Full of Plot Twists and Turns! August 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie for a rainy Sunday Afternoon. If you are into old-fashioned mysteries, this is the movie for you
Great Movie July 19, 2007
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.
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