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starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Shabana Azmi, Leigh Lawsondirected by: John Schlesinger
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781558800779
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 1558800778
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Sales Rank: 11015
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: October 14, 1988
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Wonderful....
Although there is one rather foul word in the movie, for the most part, the movie is excellent. Great music, and a story that makes you think.
Rating:  - A fine study of the psychopathology in classical music
This is a very fine portrayal of the bullying, exploitation, and lack of interpersonal boundaries that pervade the classical music industry. I give it four stars for its entertaining "true-to-lifeness"---even the boy's mother uses him incestuously. The only reason I didn't give it five is that Schlesinger himself exploits his adolescent star at times, probably unconsciously (as in the massage scene). Instead of growing up and/or getting the intensive psychotherapy they so desperately need, these ... Read More
Rating:  - A pre-conceived tour-de-force for MacLaine
Derivative elements hinder story of an eccentric Russian piano teacher in a decaying neighborhood of London (a literary descendant of Jean Brodie and possibly Auntie Mame) who coaches a brilliant immigrant youngster from India in music and life. Modest drama, marked with false uplift and poor color, contains a multitude of sub-plots which never come together cohesively, serving little purpose other than to pad the slim central story. Shirley MacLaine has good moments as Yuvline Sousatzka, yet the ... Read More
Rating: - The clash of two wills
A piano teacher lives into a glittering environment, plenty of expensive jewels in order to cultivate and inspire constantly the spirit, but the fate has prepared her a striking surprise when she looks her dark side in the mirror of the reality, personified by a teenager (15) who was born with an inner passion.
Interesting existential dialectics between what's real and what's untrue in this formidable clash of trains among two characters, the ostentation of experience against ... Read More
Rating: - Brings Back Memories
I just watched this movie on an old vhs taped off of HBO from the late 80's! Terrible quality and sound, but a fantastic movie nontheless and it reminds me so much of my childhood. I need this on DVD. Who do we petition to get this on DVD?!?!
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