Music of the Heart

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.

Cast

Meryl Streep

as Roberta

Aidan Quinn

as Brian

Angela Bassett

as Janet

Gloria Estefan

as Isabel

Cloris Leachman

as Assunta

Josh Pais

as Dennis

Jane Leeves

as Dorothea

Kieran Culkin

as Lexi at 15

Charlie Hofheimer

as Nick at 17

Jay O. Sanders

as Dan Paxton

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