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The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

Aug 27, 2000 · 1h 40m
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Drama
TV Movie

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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

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Glenne Headly
Ingrid Green
Tom Irwin
Norman Green
Madeline Zima
Rachel Green
Jane Powell
Delia Ferguson
Richard McMillan
Jim Sykes
Roger Dunn
Mayor Broadbent
Elizabeth Lennie
Angie Wyman
Tamara Hope
Carol Wyman
Directed by Bradley Wigor

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EN
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US
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