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Shine

Summary: Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Release Date: February 14, 1997

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Scott Hicks

Writers: Jan Sardi

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Film Victoria, Momentum Films

Distributor: New Line Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Starz, TNT

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 35,892,330

International: $ 106,751

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1950s 1960s 1970s abuse abusive father abusive parent apology astrologer australia australian abroad australian man bar mitzvah based on real person bath bathtub beach blockbuster blonde boy wears eyeglasses breast groping camera cat check book child abuse child prodigy chopping wood cigar smoking cigarette cigarette smoking city classical music climbing stairs clipboard computer concert concert hall domineering father driving at night electroconvulsive therapy family relationships father son relationship father's grave flight of ideas girl wears eyeglasses going home hair dryer handbag independent film jew jewish jewish family jogging jumping knocking on a door knocking on a window letter letterbox lighting a cigar lighting a cigarette london england looking at picture looking in a window looking out a window loosely based on a true story love lying on a bed man wears eyeglasses marriage proposal mental illness musician nervous breakdown newspaper night nudity one word title opening a door opening scene repeated later in film pianist piano piano concerto piano virtuoso playing chess playing piano pool postman pressure of speech psychiatric hospital rain reading a letter record player reference to franz liszt reference to frederic chopin reference to god reference to liberace reference to sergei rachmaninoff repeated line restaurant riding a bicycle royal albert hall london royal college of music scene during opening credits schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia scrapbook shaking hands south australia swimming pool taking a bath taxi telling someone to shut up timeframe 1950s trafalgar square london tragedy trampoline typewriter umbrella underwater scene visit waking up wedding younger version of character

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