Too Incredible for Belief

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2012)

I really wanted to like this movie. I love music, and I enjoy several of the actors involved. A great movie can suspend any disbelief at least until it is over. This film was unable to do that. The movie took one unbelievable turn after another. The orphanage environment, the way children's services operated, a father forging his daughter's name and signing away her baby for adoption while she is in a coma (nobody would notice the paper was signed while she was unconscious?), the instant ability to both play instruments and write music, the enrollment of a minor in a prestigious music school without even appointing a legal guardian or trying to locate his parents.
I watched this with my children. They were irritated that every few minutes I was saying, "That could never happen because . . ." I was so frustrated with all of the unbelievable scenarios I was asked to accept that I wish I would have avoided this. I bought the DVD for $2.39 on a clearance rack. I think I overpaid.