The Legend of 1900
1998 · 2h 50m · Drama, Music
The critics-to-audience gap here is telling: IMDb lovers give this a solid 8, but professional reviewers are skeptical—trust the people on this one. If you're in the mood for a whimsical, character-driven story about a piano prodigy born on a ship, watch it tonight; if you need something more conventionally gripping, skip it.
Plot
Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
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