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Music of the Heart (1999)

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18:45-21:00 Wed 7th Jan 2009 135m
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Horror maestro Wes Craven, in his first non-fantasy film, here tells the true story of violin teacher Roberta Guaspari (Meryl Streep), who brought music and hope to the school kids of East Harlem. Sadly, the material is given a vacuous TV-movie treatment under Craven's restrained direction, and ends up as a bland mix of Fame and Dangerous Minds. Streep merely plays a parody of herself while salsa superstar Gloria Estefan is ineffectual in her feature debut. The reasonably rousing finale aside - a fundraiser at Carnegie Hall with Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman accompanying the students - this emotional concerto has too many flat notes to soar.