The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

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• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Bradley Wigor
• Cast(s): Glenne Headly, Tom Irwin, Madeline Zima, Jane Powell, Richard McMillan See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 40min
• Award(s): Daytime Emmy 2001 (Won)
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• Story:
  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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