NEAR MINT -UNSEALED

Jessica Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Absolutely convinced that her father is being railroaded by a revenge-seeking Hungarian communist government, Lange handles Mueller-Stahl's defense, expertly blowing huge holes in prosecuting attorney Frederic Forrest's case. But in doing her own research, Lange discovers that her father has spent a lifetime paying off a blackmailer. Why? In contrast to the fervency of his earlier Z, Costa-Gavras refuses to make things easy by proselytizing in The Music Box (nor does screenwriter Joe Esterhas indulge in his usual right-between-the-eyes fervency). Everything in the film is offered on the same calm, collected level, making the ultimate horror of the story all the more effective. 1989

1. Ann's Theme (2:30)
2. Blood Red Danube (1:42)
3. Federal Building (3:19)
4. Departure From Court (0:56)
5. Ann Studies Documents (2:09)
6. Journey to Budapest (4:27)
7. The Scar (1:11)
8. Ann and Georgina in Talbot's Library (2:27)
9. The Mirror (1:43)
10. Cemetery (2:19)
11. Candor (The Gendarmes) (3:45)
12. The Remembering of Ann's Mother (3:11)
13. Music Box (3:41)
14. The Newspaper (0:55)
15. Finale (1:02)