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Summary: Inspiring
Review: An inspiring movie. It had me in tears. Streep is outstanding as usual. Good family film. I highly recommend this film.
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Summary: Time for Kleenex!
Review: Being an educator, ironically, I didn't know if I would like this DVD because I don't teach music. How wrong I was! After renting the movie, I automatically signed on and logged onto Amazon to see if it was available on the "open market." This has to be one of the most inspirational, uplifting, eye-opening movies I have observed in a very long time. I had limited movement due to my cat being asleep on me so the one paper towel I did have became very wet in a short amount of time. If you want to see children light up and the professional community come together for a good cause, this is the movie for you.But remember, have lots of tissue.
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Summary: Perfection!
Review: This movie is fantastic! Meryl Streep, once again, gives us a flawless performance and , as usual, amazes everyone by making us fell like we're inside the screen, right next to her while she's performing. Gloria Estefan is also great in her debut. This movie is inspireing, and when it's over, gives you that " I feel good about myself" feeling. Every movie should do that.
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Summary: Everything a perfect family movie should have!
Review: "Music of the Heart" is one of the best movies I've ever seen. This movie has it all: comedy, drama, romance, trauma, surprises....and this movie was also very inspiring. This movie (based on a true story) was about a young woman named Roberta Guaspari and she played the violin. After her husband left her and her two kids for another woman, Roberta taught her children how to play the violin and other instruments. They moved to New York City (I think) and she wanted to teach other children how to play the violin so they could actually feel like they could do something right. So, she decided to go to an elementary school and ask if she could be the childrens' violin teacher. The principal of the school at first, didn't want her to teach at her school. And the movie is basically about how Roberta ends up getting the job as a violin teacher and teaching the children (who were very difficult, of course) to play the violin and respect themselves and others. Meryl Streep was so excellent in this movie (the entire cast was) but the only thing I wished was for Gloria Estefan to have a bigger part. She only had like, one or two lines. I mean, she appeared in a lot of the movie, but she didn't really have any lines. Other than that, I think this was the one of the best movies I've ever seen (like I said before) and can't wait to get it on video! And if you've seen this movie or are thinking about seeing it, then I totally encourage you to go out and see it. This is one movie that I think everybody should see! It's worth watching-even if you only end up watching it, once. You still remember the movie. And I almost cried at the end of the movie (and I usually don't cry when I'm watching movies!) so I really encourage you to go out and buy this video. You'll remember the movie for years to come!
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Summary: Great and Inspiring
Review: This movie is great! It is based on a true story! Before I went to see it I thought it was going to be boring. But right after I started watching it I loved it! I almost cried at the end!It is sad though. It is also very insperational on how this one woman taught these kids that live in Harlem how to play the violin! The song is also very inspiring! Just listen to the words and you can tell! I have already pre-ordered this movie and I would recommend it to anyone. I would also do the same with the album!
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Summary: Great!
Review: This movie is great! I t deals with a subject that has been done befora, but it isn't a cliché. It's about this great woman, Roberta Guaspari, and her struggle to move on, after her husband leaves her and her two sons and runs away with a family friend. Meryl Streep as Roberta is perfect! As usual her performance is beleivable and flawless. Streep got a deserving 12th Oscar nomination and once again lost. Don't get me wrong but last years Oscar with One Tru Thing she should have won and thins year history repeted itself. Goria Estefan did a great job in her debut as an actress and I hope she gets to do mre and more movies. I highly recomend this movie to everyone who enjoys good and solid acting. It's great!
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Summary: This movie is dumb
Review: Meryl Streep gets nominated for Oscars if she were to just sneeze.There are lots of movies about teachers that inspire that are less Hokie than this
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Summary: Simply the Best!
Review: Just note: I have seen this movie 5 times and i still cry (although less) each time i watch it. The movie is great, highly inspiring and motivating. It does goes to show that music is indeed a huge part of our life. All stars were great, especailly Meryl Streep (she's the best). If you haven't seen this movie, you dont't know what your're missing!
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Summary: Moving, Heart-warming story...Directed by Wes Craven?
Review: "Music of the Heart" represents the hope that all lives in us. The hope and courage to stand by our beliefs and have a positive though about most of the negative aspects of life. Meryl Streep plays Roberta Guaspari, a newly single mother of two, with no job and a desperate need of a man in her life. When friend/lover Brian Sinclair (Aidan Quinn) sends Roberta to Harlem, New York, to become a violin teacher, Roberta gets more than she expected. The rest of the cast, Oscar award nominee Angela Bassett as Janet, the school principle, and Grammy Award Winning singer, and making her motion picture debut, Gloria Estefan, as Isabel Vasquez, (who should have debuted as Eva Peron in "Evita") give superb performances that are believable and real. Cloris Leachman, Jane Leeves Jay O. Sanders' performances were essential and very effective to the story. Director Wes Craven, who is best known for the "Scream" trilogy, proves that switching genres is, in fact, POSSIBLE. Estefan and N'Sync's closing ballad, "Music of My Heart" fits the theme of the story very well. This 2 Disc DVD Set, is a true must-have to everyone's collection.
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Summary: Proficient if somewhat anodyne movie
Review: While based on reality this is not a notably realistic movie and makes everything look glossier and easier than I am sure it was in the real world .
Meryl Streep plays Roberta Guispari whose husband leaves her for a younger woman .Needing a job she tries to persuade Janet Williams ( Angela Bassett) the principal of an East Harlem school,to take her on a violin teacher in a special programme and eventually succeeds thanks to an impromptu recital by her two young sons .( It would not have altered my decision -but then we would not have had a movie )
She faces resistance ,both from the pupils and one parent in particular ,who loudly avers that she is a meddling white liberal ,that dead white man's music is not relevant and that no black classical composers have ever existed .( The ranting ignoramus has clearly never heard of Samuel Coleridge Taylor whose oratorio The Song of Hiawatha is still a staple of choral societies in the UK .)
The movie unfolds ,in somewaht episodic fashion ,treating of Roberta's personal and professional life; the success of the programme and its threat of being terminated by funders concluding in a Carnegie Hall fundraising concert)
Its sentimental without being overly schmalty but does tend to make all the students too glossy --well groomed ,speaking excellent English and with supportive parents .Such do exist but are by no means in the kind of majority we see in the movie .It is unrealistic and this undercuts the very real achievement of the actual Ms Guispari in driving the programme over so many years .
Still the music is good -especially the final concert -and the peformances from Streep ,Bassett and Cloris Leachaman as Streep's mother are admirable .Anonymous but capable direction is in the hands of horror maestro Wes Craven -his first movie outside that genre
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