Shine

Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine Director: Scott Hicks Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 22nd January, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Shine is a 1996 film which tells the true story of pianist David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown & spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz. The movie was written by Scott Hicks & Jan Sardi & directed by Hicks. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor & was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Picture & Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

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 & 1960s, & suffered a psychological collapse after enduring years of abuse from his father . Hicks has three very fine actors portraying Helfgott at different stages of his life, including the adorably wry & goofy Noah Taylor , who takes up the characters teen years, & 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 persons life can take to make glorious sense of itself. Sir John Gielgud, in golden form, plays Helfgotts teacher.

Geoffrey Rush is an Australian actor. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, he began his acting career with the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. He also has an Arts Degree from the University of Queensland. While in college, he roomed with Mel Gibson. Rushs film debut was in the Australian film Hoodwink in 1981. His next film was in Gillian Armstrong s Starstruck, the following year. In 1996, he starred in Shine, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. From that point on, his career skyrocketed. In 1998 he appeared in three major films -- Les Miserables, in which he played Inspector Javert; Elizabeth, in which he played the suspicious Sir Francis Walsingham ; & Shakespeare in Love in which he played the acting company manager who remained calm in the midst of chaos. In 2000, he received his third Academy Award nomination, for Quills, in which he played the Marquis de Sade. Rushs career continues at an amazingly fast pace, with nine films released from 2001 through 2003. The Curse of the Black Pearl, as Captain Barbossa. Posters Of Geoffrey Rush

Editors Choice: Quills, Shakespeare In Love, The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, Elizabeth, Harvie Krumpet, Swimming Upstream, Shine, The Tailor Of Panama, View DVDology

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