Music of the Heart *** (1999, Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6517

Director Wes Craven’s heartwarming, inspirational 1999 drama stars Meryl Streep as a teacher who fights her education board to stop cuts and be able to coach underprivileged Harlem kids the violin.

Off his usual territory, director Craven does a very solid job of a non-horror movie and there is a tasty meal of good acting, not least from a hardworking Streep, making her violin-playing scenes seem real.

With a decent script by Pamela Gray, it comes out just ahead of being just a TV movie, but ironically it was sent straight to the small screen in the UK.

Also in the cast are Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, Aidan Quinn, Henry Dinhofer, Michael Angarano, Teddy Coluca, Josh Pais, Barbara Gonzalez, Jade Yorjer, Victoria Gômez and Justin Pierre Edmund.

It is shot by Peter Deming, produced by Usan Kaplan and Marianne Maddalena, scored by Mason Daring and designed by Bruce Alan Miller.

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 6517

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