Movie
Music of the Heart
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1999-10-29
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Craven-Maddalena Films, Miramax
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Roberta
- Aidan Quinn as Brian
- Angela Bassett as Janet
- Gloria Estefan as Isabel
- Cloris Leachman as Assunta
- Josh Pais as Dennis
- Jane Leeves as Dorothea
- Kieran Culkin as Lexi at 15
- Charlie Hofheimer as Nick at 17
- Jay O. Sanders as Dan Paxton
- Henry Dinhofer as Lexi at 5
- Michael Angarano as Nick at 7
Crew
- Wes Craven - Director
- Pamela Gray - Screenplay
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