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Music of the Heart
[2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Aidan Quinn, Cloris Leachman, Gloria Estefan
Director: Wes Craven Allan Miller (II)
Format: Anamorphic Collector's Edition Colour Dolby DVD-Video Widescreen NTSC
Released: 25 Apr 2000
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Customer Reviews

pure emotion - By: , 29 Oct 2005
THis is an amazing feel good film with a real story to pull at the heart strings...great performance in support by gloria estefan.
music of the heart. - By: , 30 Jun 2004
This video was for my mum's birthday present. It doesn't work!!
Please advise me of a return address, & please could it be replaced. My mum loves this film.
Cheers.
the ultimate feel good movie - By: DAVID IVEY, 27 May 2004
I saw this on TV on new years day, & could not pull myself away from it. It has everything, good music, humour, emotions,. If you buy it you will be enthrallled by it & wont be able to pull your self away
A True Inspiration - By: , 12 Jan 2003
This is a wonderful & heartwarming film taken from actual events & brought to life by the marvelous Meryl Streep. It is sentimental to be sure, but also an inspiration & a reminder to not give up on kids. Once exposed to the arts & finding a sense of accomplishment in their success children will carry this over into other areas of life as well. It is a message that is at once good, & true. It is brought nicely to the forefront in this very underrated Wes Craven film that boasts a terrific cast & an uplifting story of hope.

Meryl Streep is Roberta Guaspari, given a chance to teach violin to some kids in east harlem in New York as a substitute by principal Janet Williams (Angela Bassett). She is a single mother with two boys of her own & initiallly has to provide the instruments for the children herself. Though some of the parents can't see how playing the violin will be of any use to their children she pushes forward with a little encouragement from teachers like Isabel Vasquez (Gloria Estefan) & the response of her students.

She is demanding of her pupils, which rubs both them & their parents the wrong way at first. But as time goes on & she adjusts to them & they begin to know her the program takes on a life of it's own, giving the kids a sense of accomplishment & the ability to dream of something better in their lives. As the years pass the program becomes well known & is a shining point to a school system that is not always equipped to deal with the number of children as compared to the number of good teachers.

Roberta's boyfriend Brian (Aidan Quinn) can not see Roberta's true worth & she finallly lets the relationship drop & concentrates on her kids. Her own boys have difficulty with their father's leaving, & then Brian, but finallly grow up enough to want happiness for their mother & even try to set her up with someone. This is not a one note movie or a one note performance as some would have you believe, but a fine & well rounded film full of love & hope.

When school funding threatens to close the program Roberta is aided by many famous musicians & she & some of her finest students are able to raise the funds with a performance at Carnegie Halll, playing with Isaac Stern & others. Streep has a luminous & heartrending turn in this wonderful film. Cloris Leachman has a nice role as well as Claire's not so perfect mother.

This film shows what can be accomplished if we make the effort to teach alll children the arts. It is just as important as academics, as this warm & caring film based on the real life of Roberta Guaspari shows. It is a movie worth owning & watching with your own kids....

Absolute entertainment both moving and inspirational - By: , 12 Dec 2000
I watched this film on a long haul flight in February 2000 because there was nothing else to do. I was absolutely enthrallled with it & have been trying to buy it ever since. Great entertainment for alll the family. Makes you want to play the violin!