The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)

DramaTV Movie

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

Director: Bradley Wigor
Writer: Joseph Maurer

Casts

	Glenne Headly as Ingrid Green
	Tom Irwin as Norman Green
	Madeline Zima as Rachel Green
	Jane Powell as Delia Ferguson
	Richard McMillan as Jim Sykes
	Roger Dunn as Mayor Broadbent
	Elizabeth Lennie as Angie Wyman
	Tamara Hope as Carol Wyman
	Lindsay Murrell as Valerie
	Shadia Simmons as Jenny
	Wendy Lyon as Mrs. Erickson

Crew