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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780619586
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780619587
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 16, 1997
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 7319
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1996
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Shine is the compelling and poignant story of a young man who defies his fathers 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. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Geoffrey Rush Sir John Gielgud Run time: 120 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Scott Hicks
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:  - 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:
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Rating: - loving and caring !
Even my 8 and 10 year old children loved this movie which inspired them to practise harder their piano lessons ! The story needed some explainations for them but then made my children think for days about it. They finally understood how own behavior can influence especially weaker persons and that you have to be aware of it... A very loving and caring story !
Rating: - Tearjerking euphoria
Wonderful tearjerker showing some of life's excesses. Stunning music and a euphorius ending that will set free any suppressed emotions....
Rating: - SHINE-A MUST SEE FOR PIANO MUSIC LOVERS
this is a must see for all people who love piano music-also a very good story.
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