The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)
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
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Glenne Headly as Ingrid Green |
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Tom Irwin as Norman Green |
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Madeline Zima as Rachel Green |
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Jane Powell as Delia Ferguson |
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Richard McMillan as Jim Sykes |
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Roger Dunn as Mayor Broadbent |
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Elizabeth Lennie as Angie Wyman |
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Tamara Hope as Carol Wyman |
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Lindsay Murrell as Valerie |
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Shadia Simmons as Jenny |
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Wendy Lyon as Mrs. Erickson |
| Production | Bradley Wigor | Executive Producer |
| Production | Joseph Maurer | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Garrison Keillor | Novel |
| Directing | Bradley Wigor | Director |
| Writing | Joseph Maurer | Screenplay |
| Camera | Brian Gedge | Steadicam Operator |
| Camera | Robert Primes | Director of Photography |