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Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2005)

I guess that it's fitting that since I share a birthday with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, that the movie about him should win Best Picture for the year in which I was born. And is it a great movie! More than simply focusing on the famous composer's life, it shows how rival composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) envied Mozart (Tom Hulce) and tried to get revenge on him.
Director Milos Forman brings to "Amadeus" the same eye-popping realism that he brought to his other Best Picture winner, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and also to "Ragtime". I'll admit, maybe it's a little strange that Pinto from "Animal House" plays Mozart, but Tom Hulce does a masterful - and funny - job with the role. I recommend this movie to everyone.