#Movie about piano prodigy movie#

Tom's flying into Chicago to play a concert - his return to public performance after five years away from the spotlight. He was really hoping the plane would go down. To Die Hard's John McClane, that's a relief to nervous wreck Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood), there couldn't be worse news. Both movies introduce their main characters on airliners experiencing turbulence when the guy in an adjacent seat sees the protagonist's anxiety, he assures him everything's going to be fine.

#Movie about piano prodigy movie#

Grand Piano immediately stakes out its territory with a nod to Die Hard, and indeed the film has also been compared to that movie set in a concert hall.

In fact, from the operatic direction to the pitch-perfect performances, everyone involved in Grand Piano seems on the same page, which will help audiences take the goofiness of the film's concept in stride. Grand Piano is a screenwriter's fantasy of a self-conscious Hitchcockian thriller, daringly written, improbably made - and more unbelievably made well. The premise of the confined thriller Grand Piano has been characterized as ' Speed at a piano,' and while that's a little reductive, it also gets right this film's audacious essence. Then he sees the message scrawled in red on his sheet music: 'Play one wrong note and you die.' The movie almost writes itself. With: Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Kerry Bishé, Alex WinterĪ world-renowned pianist known for cracking under the pressure of performance sits down to play a concerto before a packed hall.