Amadeus

Description

Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor, and Director, playwright Peter Shaffer's engrossing story of genius, jealousy, and passion stars Tom Hulce as the gifted but childish prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as his bitter rival, Salieri. From an 18th-century Viennese insane asylum, an aging Salieri looks back at three decades languishing in the brilliant Mozart's shadow. With Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow; Milos Forman directs. 160 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.