The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)

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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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DIRECTION:  Bradley Wigor
CAST:  Glenne Headly  •  Tom Irwin  •  Madeline Zima  •  Jane Powell

Cast & Characters

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
Lindsay Murrell Valerie
Shadia Simmons Jenny
Wendy Lyon Mrs. Erickson

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