A dramatic film made by people who understand music as much as filmmaking.

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2010)

Dying in 1823, the jealous composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) claims to have murdered Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce).
A musical legend performed with success and economy on stage now becomes an exciting baroque film, like an opera in high-pitched dialogue. The brilliance of its conceit is that the story is more about Salieri's mediocrity and failure in the shadow of Mozart's genius. Amadeus is lavish, spectacular, and great to look at; Hulce and Abraham never again played roles of this magnitude.
Abraham appears in the 1993 film Last Action Hero. The young boy, Danny, tells Arnold Schwarzenegger not to trust Abraham, because, "He killed Mozart!" Schwarzenegger asks, "In a movie?" Danny responds, "Amadeus! It won eight Oscars!"