Special Feature
- The Cast
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Questions & Answers with Scott Hicks
- Geoffrey Rush`s Golden Globe Acceptance Speech
- Other Trailers (Chicken Fun, Cast Away, Meet the Parents, Gladiator)
Additional information
Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful
movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in
flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his
father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in
Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally
breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later
suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many
years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even
more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before
finally returning to the concert hall.