After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 5 wins & 11 nominations total
- DeSean at 11
- (as Jade Yorker)
- Lucy at 10
- (as Victoria Gomez)
- Naeem at 9
- (as Justin Spaulding)
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Storyline
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- TriviaImmediately following a phenomenally successful preview screening of the original Tiếng Thét (1996), Bob and Harvey Weinstein offered Wes Craven a three picture deal, two of which were to be horror films, the last of which was to be "a petticoat film" (i.e. a costume drama for which the Weinsteins were known at the time) which Craven, a fan of classical music, chose to be this film.
- GoofsAt the end of Roberta's first week of teaching, Brian visits her apartment to celebrate. When he enters the room, Roberta has just finished putting three large curlers in her hair on the left side. They disappear after the two of them kiss.
- Quotes
Roberta Guaspari: [entering Dorothea's house after a stressful rehearsal for a huge concert] Oh, I can't believe I *ever* agreed to do this! You should hear the Bach double. Ha-ha-ha! It's a *complete* disaster!
Dorothea von Haeften: Good morning...
Roberta Guaspari: Good morning. Well, the good news is the tickets are selling like hotcakes. The bad news is, the kids sound like shit...
Dorothea von Haeften: There's more bad news. We've lost the Y.
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Performed by Aaliyah
Written by Guy Roche and Shelly Peiken
Produced and arranged by Guy Roche
Mixed by Mick Guzauski
Arranged, orchestrated & conducted by David Campbell (uncredited)
Aaliyah appears courtesy of Blackground Entertainment, Inc.
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
This film treads awfully close to made-for-T.V. territory, but Streep is such a good actress that she keeps a tight grip on the runaway sentimentality that's always present in the screenplay. But in any case, who cares? This IS a feel good story, and it's a good enough movie that you can simply give in to letting it make you feel good without also making you feel guilty by being suckered.
Grade: B+
- evanston_dad
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $27,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $14,859,394
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,653,281
- Oct 31, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $14,936,407
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1