Fantastic movie, even if it's a pack of lies.

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 1999)

This is simply one of the best movies ever made, and ah! The music! Mozart was the end of the Classical Era of music, because simply, after Mozart, nothing further could be said in that genre.
This is based on Peter Schaffer's play, however, resembles the actual history in that the people in it did in fact live. The events, however, bear little resemblance to the actual history of Mozart. This does not matter one bit. F. Murray Abraham is spectacular as the scheming Salieri, a competent, if not gifted, composer forced to watch "this crude little man", Mozart, achieve all that Salieri wanted in his own music.
See this movie at all costs. Blow off work. Sell your house. You will not regret it