The Music Box (1989)
- Starring:
- Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, (more)
- Director(s):
- Costa-Gavras
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
- Category:
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
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Jessica Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Absolutely convinced that her father is being railroaded by a revenge-seeking Hungarian communist government, Lange handles Mueller-Stahl's defense, expertly blowing huge holes in prosecuting attorney Frederic Forrest's case. But in doing her own research, Lange discovers that her father has spent a lifetime paying off a blackmailer. Why? In contrast to the fervency of his earlier Z, Costa-Gavras refuses to make things easy by proselytizing in The Music Box (nor does screenwriter Joe Esterhas indulge in his usual right-between-the-eyes fervency). Everything in the film is offered on the same calm, collected level, making the ultimate horror of the story all the more effective. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jessica Lange - Ann Talbot
- Frederic Forrest - Jack Burke
- Lukas Haas - Michael "Mikey" Talbot
- Agnes Gallwitz - Translator
- Erica MD Heit - Doctor
- Gabor Koncz - Limo Driver
- Elizabeth Owens - Loop Group
- Megan Warner - Secretary
- Ralph Foody - Pawn Broker
- Mitchell Litrofsky - Sandy Lehman
- Margo Winkler - Irma Kiss
- Leonard E. Boswell - Courtroom Guard
- Owen Rice - Courtroom Reporter
- Zoltan Gera - Man in Budapest
- Michaél Shillo - Geza Vamos
- Douglas Marcinek - Courtroom Guard
- Nicholas Christianson - Boy with Mikey
- Felix Shuman - James Nathanson
- Larry Brandenburg - John Staley
- Andy Avalos - Weatherman
- Mimi Bensinger - Loop Group
- Magda Szekely Marburg - Judit Hollo
- Jane MacIver - Secretary
- Tom Skilling - Weatherman
- Mari Töröcsik - Magda Zoldan
- Magda Sass - Translator
- Sol Frieder - Istvan Boday
- Armin Mueller-Stahl - Michael Laszlo
- Donald Moffat - Harry Talbot
- Cheryl Lynn Bruce - Georgine Wheeler
- Tracy Grant - Servant
- George Pusep - Vladimir Kostav
- Ellis Williams - Loop Group
- Tom Stienke - Sports Announcer
- Edward Blatchford - Young Man
- Donnez Harris - Security Guard
- Christiana Nicola - Maria
- Nicholas J. Giangiulio - Loop Group
- Marta Sebestyen - Singer
- Pauline Kaner - Reporter
- Kevin White - Clerk
- Mark Steggerda - Courtroom Guard
- Michael Rooker - Karchy Laszlo
- Richard D'Angelo - Violent Protester
- Toni Fleming - Housekeeper
- J.S. Block - Judge Erwin Silver
- Tibor Kenderesi - Pal Horvath
- Joe Guzaldo - Joe Dinofrio
- Dan Resin - Loop Group
- Ned Schmidtke - Dean Talbot
- Gyorgy Emod - Andras Nagy
- Albert Hall - Mack Jones
- Elzbieta Czyzewska - Melinda Kalman
- Director(s):
- Costa-Gavras
- Writer(s):
- Joe Eszterhas
- Producer(s):
- Irwin Winkler
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13(Questionable for Children, Adult Situations, Profanity, Adult Language)
- Categories:
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
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- 1990 - The Music Box - Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Bear
