The Competition

Yet another extremely difficult movie to rate. In many ways, it's terrible, yet it's so bad it's almost a camp classic. The writers knew just enough about music to give the characters lines that are truly ridiculous if you know anything about classical music. As a classical pianist, I find this movie utterly hilarious, and most of it is clearly unintentional--almost all of the intentionally funny lines are giving to Lee Remick, who delivers them with verve, despite their total cheesiness.