Rhapsody in Blues

= Rhapsody In Blues =

Release Date: July 4th, Year 1

Genre(s): Drama/Romance/Crime/Comedy

Directed by: Robert Zemrckis.

MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for: Language, Violence, and Drug usage) 

Theaters: 4100

= PLOT =

Tony Rockton (Hanks) is a bitter piano player working at a small inner city bar with a dark and mysterious background. Slowly Tony falls in love with a young sweet woman named Pam Maudiline (Zellweger) who has always had a secret crush on him. At the same time big time mafia don, Rocky Canoosh (De Niro) aka the BIG Canoosh, has put a hit on Tony after finding out that Tony was the man who told the police about one of Canoosh's large criminal projects causing Canoosh's business to go nearly bankrupt. Throughout the story we slowly learn about Tony's dark life, but Tony learns how love heals all wounds. Some of other the lovable characters in Tony's life include this bestfriend, Lenny Marlo (Llyod), an annoying noisy casino owner, and his boss the dumb, but sweet Marty Jones (Goodman).

= CAST =

Tom Hanks...............Tony Rockton

Renee Zellweger.......Pam Maudiline

Robert De Niro..........Rocky Canoosh

Christopher Llyod......Lenny Marlo

John Goodman..........Marty Jones

= RECEPTION =

Rhapsody In Blues opened to a meager $28 million. Both fans and critics immeditately fell in love it as it had legendary legs and crawled it way up to $662.7 million, a record that is held to this day.

= BOX OFFICE INCOME =

Opening Weekend: $28,024,991

Total Domestic Gross: $662,748,105 (1)

= AWARDS =


 * Rapsody In Blues is the winner of 5 OSCAR awards including:

Best Picture

Tom Hanks as Tony Rockton for Best Actor

Best Screenplay

Best Original Score

Best Sound Editing

Robert Zemeckis for Best Director
 * as well as nominated for 6 of the following:

Best Cinematography

"Tears of a City" for Best Song

Best Editing

Robert DeNiro as Rocky Canoosh for Best Supporting Actor

Best Sound Effects


 * Nominated for 3 Golden Globes (including Best Comedy/Musical, Tom Hanks for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical, and Renee Zelwegger for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical)

= ADDITIONAL FACTS =


 * Rapsody In Blues sat in the top 10 for 4 weeks before becoming #1 for two consecutive weeks.


 * Rhapsody In Blues sat in the top 10 for a record 19 weeks!


 * Rapsody In Blues holds one of the highest multipliers as its finall gross was 23.65x the amount that it made opening weekend. (the record belongs to "Joshua," which had a 23.85x multipler)