An American Rhapsody (2001)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Strong and Moving!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Best movie ever!

Being the daughter of parents which also fled to American during the Cold War, this movie touched my heart. I watched it with my mother and two sisters. Since we all speak fluent hungarian, we did not need the subtitles which was a lot of fun, especially when we caught mistakes in the subtitles. The film brought back sad and scary memories to my mother. Tony Goldwyn did a good job speaking the language. The only criticism I have, is that it was unrealistic for the main characters to speak English as well as they did in such a short period of time. I doubt English was taught in the Hungarian schools back during that time. Also, it was not that easy starting a life in America at first. You had to work very hard and had very little, nothing was handed to you. The movie came across as though they lived comfortably quite easily and early on. Both my parents spent time in immigration camps in NY, which is were they met, they worked hard, scratched and clawed for everything they had. Not easy as it is now. Over all I liked the Film and still recommend it.

I love this movie! Some of the things may not be of Hungarian nature, but I still rate it a 10! Kudos to all the actors! Bravo! Scarlett Johannson is a very talented actress in her own right, as is Tony Goldwyn and Natasha Kinski (forgive me if I spelled her name wrong). This movie made me fall in love with Budapest, as well as Hungary itself. I would love to go see it in person. And the storyline, well, I don't think I could have written it better myself. It's simply an awesome movie with awesome actors and I recommend this movie to anyone; it would make an excellent movie to watch in a World History class in schools or colleges.

"American Rhapsody" is an exceptionally well-written, acted, and directed Lifetime TV/Hallmark Hall of Fame-like movie. Based on the life of the debut writer/director Eva Gardos, the movie adds the immigrant refugee perspective to the teen-age rebellion genre. While I can't know if the black-and-white scenes in 1950's Hungary are portrayed accurately, the Kodachrome sights and sounds of growing up in '50's and '60's suburbia are among the most acutely portrayed I've ever seen in the movies. While my parents weren't the ones with foreign accents--it was my grandmother-- boy do I remember that making me different from the white bread around me. Scarlett Johannsson turns in another stellar performance, as in "Ghost World." This is Natassja Kinski's best role in years, and Tony Goldwyn does fine in the sympathetic paternal role that Aidan Quinn usually does. Even the kid who is "Grace" in TV's "State of Grace" is apt. All this quality helps to overcome the sentiment and nostalgia, and the creator does avoid the didacticism of most heart-warming TV movies on the same subject of reconciliation.A fine PG-13 family movie, though I would have liked to see more of what Gardos said in an interview that in her real life rebellion "I did worse."(originally written 8/11/2001)

This film has many mistakes (Hungary, Budapest in 50ies-60ies). Sometimes i was wondering why main characters don't use the expected language (for example, the parents argued in English, not in their native language; the father greets Zsuzsi in English when she arrives to America, not in Hungarian...). I can't imagine these situations could have happened this way. After all, I really loved this film. It's full of emotions, real feelings, I can understand most of the characters. I can't explain this, the film absolutely preoccupied me. The movie is based on a real story, and I felt it in every moment.