Writer-director Joel Oliansky has merely collected a group of cliché characters, inserted some Cold War nonsense and a silly love story and hired a group of pianists to dub in the competitive concertos.

The Competition isn't a great movie, but it's a warm, entertaining one. It has the nerve to tell a story about serious, interesting, complicated people, who are full of surprises.

Joel Oliansky's screenplay affords the viewer not only a richly emotional story of two people competing against and falling in love with each other, but a wealth of some of the most beautiful piano concertos ever composed.

A pat, predictable romantic drama set against the background of the classical music world.