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Trying to remember name of movie..can you help?
TV commercial | 11/12/09 | DGHoodini

Posted on 11/12/2009 4:38:41 PM PST by DGHoodini

I'm trying to remember the name of a movie, that I only saw ads on TV for, and it's been a while...

The movie plotline, goes something like this: Two friends, one a virtuoso violinist, go their separate ways. Years later, the one who was not the violinist, runs across the one who was, who apparently suffered a mental breakdown, and was playing on the streets for change from passersby.

Anyone remember the name of this movie, or even a actor who was in it?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: breakdown; friend; movie; violinist
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To: DGHoodini
I think this resembles the plot of The Deer Hunter, actually.
41 posted on 11/12/2009 5:15:04 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: DGHoodini

42 posted on 11/12/2009 5:21:10 PM PST by DaughterofEve (Proverbs 3:5-6)
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To: DGHoodini

It seems like the only reason people go to the movies anymore is for the sax and violins.


43 posted on 11/12/2009 5:23:59 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: DGHoodini

Another liberal movie where the poor black person is helped by the do good white person. How many are there? THOUSANDS. There’s one coming out with Sandra Bullock I see being advertised. Do you guys understand what I’m saying? It’s the same formula...the oppressed minority, down on his luck because of evil America suddenly meets up to some white liberals who helps the minority be all he/she can be and then everyone cries at the end and liberals walk away feeling good. As opposed to the conservative movies where the person pulls him/herelf up by his own bootstraps and succeeds ON THEIR OWN MERIT.


44 posted on 11/12/2009 5:37:50 PM PST by Hildy
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To: DGHoodini
Sounds like Zardoz to me...
45 posted on 11/12/2009 5:44:14 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be Your Slave)
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To: RandallFlagg

You’re a Very Funny Guy!


46 posted on 11/12/2009 5:44:36 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono; Krankor

That was my best impersonation through text the sound of a Buick’s starter cranking; which is almost EXACTLY what Phantom of Krankor’s laugh sounds like.


47 posted on 11/12/2009 5:47:23 PM PST by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: RandallFlagg

Sounded pretty darn close to me.


48 posted on 11/12/2009 5:58:40 PM PST by Krankor
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To: Hildy

Maybe you’re right, but “The Soloist” is a true story.
And not a perfect happy ending, either ~ the guy is still on the street.


49 posted on 11/12/2009 6:11:22 PM PST by b9
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To: DGHoodini

The guy in “Shine” had a nervous breakdown, but he played the piano, so that probably isn’t the one......


50 posted on 11/12/2009 7:25:37 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: DGHoodini

Predator 2.


51 posted on 11/12/2009 8:06:32 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: cripplecreek

I second that. He was so good on IN LIVING COLOR And blew my mind in RAY!


52 posted on 11/12/2009 10:37:46 PM PST by crazydad
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To: b9

They spent millions on a movie about him and he is still broke and homeless? You’ve got to love Hollywood liberals!


53 posted on 11/13/2009 1:07:42 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (a wild-eyed, exclusionist, birther religio-beast -- Daily Kos)
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To: b9; Hildy
I think The Blindside is being referred to. Also a true, and contemporary, story.
54 posted on 11/13/2009 2:52:29 AM PST by pa_dweller (Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves:... Isa 1:23)
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