Following the real life story of a well known Viennese composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who faces many challenges and hardships throughout his life, till he becomes a celebrity and gains a huge popularity, the thing that makes the jealous of Salieri, who does his best to get rid of him.
Forman's tormented, iconoclastic subjects are often pitted against iconic or impersonal antagonists, but Amadeus' conflict remains rivetingly intimate, in spite of its sumptuous, larger-than-life settings.
A rowdy, funny, suspenseful, and sometimes very moving visit with two fascinating personalities: one an uncouth prodigy, the other an earnest second-rater who never quite understands why somebody else should get all the glory.
What Amadeus presents us with is an unexpected and strangely moving spectacle: a Roadrunner cartoon in which Wily Coyote... ends at last by stopping his fleet-footed foe dead in his tracks.
