The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)

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

Directing:
  • Bradley Wigor

Writing:
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Joseph Maurer

Stars:
Release Date: 2000-08-27
themoviedb icon 6.0/10
  • Language: en
  • Runtime: 100
Jane Powell
Jane Powell
Delia Ferguson
Madeline Zima
Madeline Zima
Rachel Green
Tamara Hope
Tamara Hope
Carol Wyman
Wendy Lyon
Wendy Lyon
Mrs. Erickson
Glenne Headly
Glenne Headly
Ingrid Green
Tom Irwin
Tom Irwin
Norman Green
Richard McMillan
Richard McMil...
Jim Sykes
Roger Dunn
Roger Dunn
Mayor Broadbent
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