Ed Blatchford

Music Box -- Music box provides celebrated director Costa-Gavras another opportunity to weave a story of nail-biting suspense with frightening political overtones.

Music box provides celebrated director Costa-Gavras another opportunity to weave a story of nail-biting suspense with frightening political overtones.

In remaking the notoriously lost film HATS OFF, the boys deliver a crated player piano to the home atop a steep hill. Their task is complicated by a nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient recipient of the piano himself. Gravity and sheer incompetence is their greatest downfall as the piano repeatedly falls back down to the bottom of the stairs.