A ridiculous film based on on fiction and much overrated

Rating: 1/10 (7 March 2008)

This highly over rated Australian film about the life of David Helfgott by David Hicks that won Geoffrey Rush an Oscar probably because of the powerful and Misguided self-loathing Jewish Lobby of the American Academy Motion Picture Board.
We are lead to believe that Helfgott has an oppressive and deprived Jewish upbringing when in fact it was more like a German upbringing and in fact it has been widely rumoured that the Helfgott family where not only German and not Jewish but also very wealthy. This totally contradicts the film.
The Jewish barmitzva depicted in the film is totally unauthentic as is the exaggeration of the mental state of David Helfgott.
In real life Helfgott is an eccentric character with a bit of a stutter who is a highly competent classical pianist. The film celebrates his life with an over exaggerated emphasis on Helfgott's achievement of overcoming his supposed mentally challenged and anti-social personality.
The film is ridiculous as it is fictitious.