Amadeus (1984) Review
Amadeus (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Not a biography and not trying to be. A film about a competent man given exactly enough talent to hear genius in somebody else and never produce it himself.
Jeffrey Jones played Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus, delivering the well there it is line about too many notes, and Principal Rooney in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which is the role most audiences know.
Beetlejuice and Sleepy Hollow gave him further comic authority roles for Tim Burton.
He was convicted in 2003 of soliciting a minor for photographs and has been a registered sex offender since, which effectively ended his career and is unavoidable in any account of it.
Elizabeth BerridgeAmadeus (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Not a biography and not trying to be. A film about a competent man given exactly enough talent to hear genius in somebody else and never produce it himself.
Alec BaldwinTim Burton's comedy about a deceased couple haunting their old house and hiring a deranged bio-exorcist to scare out the living family. Alec Baldwin plays Adam Maitland.
Christina RicciSleepy Hollow is Tim Burton's 1999 American gothic horror film loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story. The Burton directorial approach combines sustained gothic atmospheric content with effective horror execution that the director's earlier comedic productions had not consistently delivered.
Al PacinoThe Devil's Advocate is Taylor Hackford's 1997 American supernatural legal thriller adapting Andrew Neiderman's 1990 novel. The work is one of the principal supernatural legal thrillers ever produced and one of the strongest Pacino late-career performances.
Alan RuckMatthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and John Hughes's most ambitious teen film. Ferris narrates Cameron's story.
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