Music Box provides celebrated director Costa-Gavras another opportunity to weave a story of nail-biting suspense with frightening political overtones. In this intense courtroom thriller Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past. When a hospitalized witness is suddenly... located in Budapest the trial moves to her father's homeland. Here crucial testimony plus Ann's personal investigation lead to astonishing results. [show more]
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Jessica Lange plays a defence lawyer trying to block the extradition of her father (Armin Muller-Stahl), a Hungarian steelworker who is accused of having been a sadistic Nazi torturer during World War II. As the trial proceeds and her strategic defence begins to take shape, Jessica Lange must confront the possibility that her father is not who he says he is.
Ann Talbot is a criminal lawyer. When her father is accused of being a Nazi war criminal she agrees to defend him. But during the trial she discovers things about him that she never knew.
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