Plot Summary
Switzerland's official 2006 Academy Awards® entry, official selection of the Berlin Film Festival, and winner of the AFI Film Festival Audience Award, Vitus is the story of a child prodigy who has everything he wants except the chance to be a normal kid. At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth that his real genius is in his heart.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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64%- Reviews Counted: 61
- Fresh: 39
- Rotten: 22
- Average Rating: 6.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Vitus, a fizzy domestic fairy tale from Switzerland, gives you a lift, as it revels in the oddball joy of genius as kid power.
Rotten: There are some likable elements to this unusual, erratic, ultimately frustrating film.
Fresh: The cast is superb, especially the young actors who portray Vitus; [Teo] Gheorghiu is a real-life piano prodigy, lending an extra frisson to the intoxicating music that plays throughout the film.
Fresh: The more sentimentally inclined in the audience may even feel like applauding.
Customer Reviews
Vitus
What a gem! Maybe a little Disneyish for some but never the less an uplifting, feel good movie the whole family will enjoy.
Fantastic
Brilliant movie, definitely one of the finest films about family I have ever seen.
Awesome story
Definitely worth a watch!
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