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Music of the Heart

She gave them a gift they could never imagine. They gave the system a fight it would never forget.
Oct 29, 1999 · 2h 4m
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Drama
Music

PLOT

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

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CAST

Meryl Streep
Roberta
Aidan Quinn
Brian
Angela Bassett
Janet
Gloria Estefan
Isabel
Cloris Leachman
Assunta
Josh Pais
Dennis
Jane Leeves
Dorothea
Kieran Culkin
Lexi at 15
Directed by Wes Craven

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$27,000,000
Revenue
$14,859,394
Production
Craven-Maddalena Films, Miramax
Country
US

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