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Music of the Heart

1999 · 124 min

A warm, earnest drama about a determined teacher and her students, with moments of struggle but an ultimately uplifting and inspiring tone.

Tagline
She gave them a gift they could never imagine. They gave the system a fight it would never forget.
Overview
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • education
  • music
  • family
  • class
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • school
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, music
Directed by
Wes Craven
Written by
Pamela Gray
Starring
Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, Josh Pais, Jane Leeves, Kieran Culkin
Music
Mason Daring
Cinematography
Peter Deming
Runtime
124 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Spanish

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