Grand Piano (film)
Grand Piano is a 2013 Englishlanguage Spanish thriller film starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack. The film is about a once promising pianist returning for a comeback performance, only to be the target of a sniper who will kill him if he plays one wrong note. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest onSeptember 2013 and was given a VOD release onJanuary 2014. It was given a limited release in U.S. theatres onMarch.
Before the concert, a house usher hands Tom a folder of sheet music. In the folder, he finds the manuscript to La Cinquette and discards it. During the concert, Tom finds a note in his sheet music that threatens to kill him if he misplays a single note. Believing it to be a prank, he ignores it, only to find further notes that threaten Emma and a laser dot that tracks his movement. Disturbed, Tom leaves the stage, shocking the audience. He returns to his dressing room, where he receives a text that instructs him to locate and wear an earpiece so that he can communicate with the assassin, Clem. When Tom returns to the stage, Clem demonstrates his rifles stealth and range by shooting a nearby spot without alerting anyone.Desperate, Tom surreptitiously uses his cell phone to contact his friend Wayne, who is in the audience. When Waynes phone goes off, it momentarily disrupts the performance, and Wayne leaves the concert hall. As he plays, Tom taps a text message to Wayne, but the usher, who is revealed to be working with Clem, kills Wayne. Clem tells Tom to look up, and Tom sees Waynes body on the rafters. Waynes girlfriend Ashley goes to search for him, and she is killed, too. Clem then tells Tom that instead of performing Beethovens Tempest Sonata, as the conductor originally announced, he must perform La Cinquette flawlessly, as an embedded lock in the piano depends on a flawless performance. Tom insists he can only do so with sheet music. ........
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