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The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented violinist, is the one most likely to achieve them. Norman (Tom Irwin) is a dairy farmer and Ingrid (Glenne Headly) is a choir director who abandoned the piano when she married and settled down, but the Greens are a happy family, for the most part. The trick is finding a way to reconcile their dreams with a reality that may hold more riches than they realize. When Norman gets a chance to conduct the local orchestra for the Dairy Days celebration, it's an opportunity for the family to come together, not just with each other, but with a community they had never fully appreciate
Style:
sincere, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, family life, culture clash, musician's life, dull life, family relations, supportive spouse, performer's life, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra, friends, social relations, small town life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, musician, pianist, classical music, outsider, music teacher, violinist, orchestra conductor, orchestral ...
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about artists and showbiz, musician's life, music, family relations, friendship, love and romance and ambition mostly in Drama, Music and Family genres. Some movies like The Sandy Bottom Orchestra: Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), I Am Not a Hipster (2012), Broken Bridges (2006), The Mambo Kings (1992), The Hours and Times (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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