
The Competition
1980, Romance, 2h 6m
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Paul Dietrich
Heidi Joan Schoonover
Greta Vandemann
Andrew Erskine
Jerry DiSalvo
Michael Humphries
Critic Reviews for The Competition
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (2)
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The Competition isn't a great movie, but it's a warm, entertaining one. It has the nerve to tell a story about serious, interesting, complicated people, who are full of surprises.
October 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Joel Oliansky's screenplay affords the viewer not only a richly emotional story of two people competing against and falling in love with each other, but a wealth of some of the most beautiful piano concertos ever composed.
May 27, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
A pat, predictable romantic drama set against the background of the classical music world.
September 20, 2019 | Full Review… -
The director and screenwriter, Joel Oliansky, somehow manages to make San Francisco visually dull, and you can feel the plot turns arriving the way an arthritic can predict the weather.
July 19, 2019 | Full Review… -
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October 27, 2005 | Rating: 3/5 -
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June 6, 2005 | Rating: B-
Audience Reviews for The Competition
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Feb 02, 2014Good drama with great music. Not an incisive examination of the cutthroat world of music competition although they do delve into it somewhat. More a drama of a selfish man letting down his defenses and a young girl who learns more than she bargains for when she lets down her guard. Excellent performances from the leads with Lee Remick adding her special brand of class but putting an icy edge to it as Amy's teacher. The only rough patch is when the two leads, who are remarkably free of rhythm for supposed musicans, dance to contemporary and quite awful music. They're gluefoots. For classical music lovers this will be a treat.jay n Super Reviewer
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Oct 10, 2008Excellent classical music and that's it.A relic of the 1980 production is a forgettable small,semi-independent feature,carved with a trifle of characteristics penetrated in its protagonists.Mere information though,the duo of Dreyfuss-Irving can't hold much.Why oh why those "intellectual" romances always end up in a sappy,sugary manner?Dimitris S Super Reviewer
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