The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

100 mins | Aug. 27, 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

The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

100 mins | Aug. 27, 2000

The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
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
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers
Original title The Sandy Bottom Orchestra
Directors Bradley Wigor
Writers Joseph Maurer, Garrison Keillor

Cast

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