Music Box (1989)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Costa-Gavras

Guionista (WGA):

Joe Eszterhas (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

enero 1990 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

As a lawyer all she wanted was the truth. As a daughter all she wanted was his innocence. How well do you really know your father?

Plot:

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Plot Keywords:

War Criminal | War Crimes | Torture | Mother Son Relationship | Holocaust

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Powerful performances mask weaknesses and a lost opportunity

Reparto

Jessica Lange	...	Ann Talbot
Armin Mueller-Stahl	...	Mike Laszlo
Frederic Forrest	...	Jack Burke
Donald Moffat	...	Harry Talbot
Lukas Haas	...	Mikey Talbot
Cheryl Lynn Bruce	...	Georgine Wheeler
Mari Töröcsik	...	Magda Zoldan
J.S. Block	...	Judge Silver
Sol Frieder	...	Istvan Boday
Michael Rooker	...	Karchy Laszlo
Elzbieta Czyzewska	...	Melinda Kalman
Magda Szekely Marburg	...	Judit Hollo
Felix Shuman	...	James Nathanson
Michael Shillo	...	Geza Vamos
George Pusep	...	Vladimir Kostav

También conocida como:

La caja de música (Spain) [es]

Duración:

124 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Húngaro

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-10 | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | West Germany:12 | Australia:M

Locaciones de Filmación:

Budapest, Hungary

Compañía:

Carolco Pictures

Trivialidades:

Both Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau wanted to play the father (Michael Laszlo) and were in contact with director Costa-Gavras. He picked Armin Mueller-Stahl for the part, who a couple of years earlier had said he would love to work with Costa-Gavras after seeing his movie Missing (1982) at the theater.

Citas:

Jack Burke: You trust your heart, you gonna get it broken.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990) (TV)

Powerful performances mask weaknesses and a lost opportunity

The performances in this film are uniformly excellent, from Jessica Lange doing perhaps her best work as a loyal daughter and efficient lawyer who comes to doubt the innocence of her father to Armin Mueller-Stahl as the father who continues to protest his innocence and demand her loyalty no matter what is revealed to Frederick Forrest as the obnoxious prosecuting attorney who nonetheless may be on the side of what is right. The film does an excellent job of manipulating emotions, (as a good film should). At first you feel the outrage that Forrest is attacking this close-knit family. Then you begin to feel the doubts that grow in the family as the evidence builds up. Your heart and your mind are always just where they should be.

Unfortunately this shields some rather amazing plot devises and the failure to explore an even more interesting issue. The manner in which the deciding evidence comes into Lange's possession is quite incredible, as is the fact that it would still exist. The question of how people in different circumstances can be very different people is unexplored. The question of how memories can be altered to fit one's needs is also untouched.

The film has considerable power but does not bear up to close reflection and is not as good a picture as it might have been. See "The Man In the Glass Booth" for something that goes beyond this.