The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

Overview

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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 27, 2000

Original language

English

Cast

Madeline Zima,Tom Irwin,Jane Powell,Elizabeth Lennie,Richard McMillan,Shadia Simmons,Roger Dunn,Wendy Lyon,Lindsay Murrell,Tamara Hopeand 1 more

Director

Bradley Wigor

Writer

Garrison Keillor,Joseph Maurer

Producer

Joseph Maurer,Bradley Wigor

Cinematography

Robert Primes

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0239935