the acting be ok and but that script . please . i can suspend disbelief up to a point and but come on . the good look thug with the heart of gold and the suppose talent to be a concert artist . hit squatter over the head with a baseball bat one moment and agonizing over a bach fugue in the next scene . take piano lesson from a recent emigrée who doesn not speak une licque of french . and oh and those tortured scene when he practice that bach fugue over and over and over and just . can not . get it . right . i be sorry . i be a classical pianist and it just not that anguish . i have never know anyone to pound their forehead on the keyboard in frustration . the music making in this film be embarrass . who do they have advise them and yanni . the end be completely inane . he flub the audition and marry the piano teacher . she go to give a concert . he drop her off at the hall and run into his father russian mobster murderer and whom he pummel within an inch of his life . just a he about to blow his head off and he think the good of it and return to the concert hall panting and drip in blood and and take his seat without anyone so much a bat an eye . i mean and i know the french be blasé and but they still do not like late arrival . also and there isn not a single scene without a cigarette in everyone mouth and all the time . i think i be go to have emphysema by the end of the movie . clap trap . do not bother .