Music of the Heart
She gave them a gift they could never imagine. They gave the system a fight it would never forget.
6.7(229) 1999-10-29 124 minDramaMusic
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.
ScreenplayPamela Gray
DirectorWes Craven
ProducerAllan Miller
ProducerMarianne Maddalena
ProducerWalter Scheuer
ProducerSusan Kaplan
Original Music ComposerMason Daring
Cast & characters
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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Henry Dinhofer
as Lexi at 5
Michael Angarano
as Nick at 7
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Robert Ari
as Supervisor
Teddy Coluca
as Taxi Driver
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Barbara Gonzalez
as Janet's Secretary
Jade Yorker
as DeSean at 11
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Victoria Gómez
as Lucy at 10
Justin Pierre Edmund
as Bongo Kid
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Justin 'DJ' Spaulding
as Naeem at 9
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Zoe Sternbach-Taubman
as Guadalupe at 9
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Christopher Lopez
as Adam
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Ruben Jared Seraballs
as James
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Lucy Nonas-Barnes
as Becky
Rosalyn Coleman
as Mrs. Adisa
