Music Box

1989
PG-13
2h 4m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

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

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

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

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See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
After the movie was released, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' own father, Istvan Eszterhas, was accused of war crimes in Hungary for printing anti-Semitic editorials, and even organizing a book burning. When Istvan admitted the charges were accurate, Joe responded by publicly condemning his father, and disowning him as a parent, later writing that he never reconciled with Istvan, and refused to let him see his grandchildren right up to the point where Istvan died of natural causes.

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Mack Jones: What do we know about our parents?

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Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Always/Music Box/Born on the Fourth of July/Tango and Cash/Camille Claudel (1989)

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Featured review

9/10

Jessica Lange in one of her best performances

This film is of course a dangerous experiment with ingredients like: a court drama, holocaust 40 years after and absolute no action at all. But because of the great performances by the actors, it ends up as a deeply moving experience.

And at the very center, Jessica Lange does a tremendous job as the lawyer and daughter of a Hungarian war criminal - or is he? She appears in almost every picture of the film, and I find her very convincing in her emotional ups and downs throughout. She does it with no glamour, but alone her incredible personality.

Most of the other actors does a great job as well, and the only reason for not voting it in top is, that the plot is not too convincing - but it first became obvious some time after I watched the film, simply because of the fine acting.

I voted 9/10.