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* [[Cool Teacher]]: Roberta shuffles back and forth from this. One moment she's harsh and unforgiving, the next she's gentle and encouraging.
* [[Cool Teacher]]: Roberta shuffles back and forth from this. One moment she's harsh and unforgiving, the next she's gentle and encouraging.
* [[Doing It for The Art]]: Meryl Streep had to learn how to look convincingly like she was an expert violinist - and it's pretty darn good.
* [[Doing It for The Art]]: Meryl Streep had to learn how to look convincingly like she was an expert violinist - and it's pretty darn good.
* [[Gang Bangers]]: The audience glimpses gang activity in the harlem housing projects.
* [[Gang-Bangers]]: The audience glimpses gang activity in the harlem housing projects.
* [[He Also Did]]: Hard to believe this is from the same director as ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]''.
* [[He Also Did]]: Hard to believe this is from the same director as ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]''.
* [[Inner City School]]: the setting for the whole film.
* [[Inner-City School]]: the setting for the whole film.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: As expected, many of the kids don't take well to learning the violin. "Violins are for sissies" is an often-used phrase. There's also a boy who makes his sister carry his violin case for him, as he is scared that his friends will make fun of him. Another boy knocks over his stand partner's music stand on purpose.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: As expected, many of the kids don't take well to learning the violin. "Violins are for sissies" is an often-used phrase. There's also a boy who makes his sister carry his violin case for him, as he is scared that his friends will make fun of him. Another boy knocks over his stand partner's music stand on purpose.
* [[The Magic Was Inside You All Along]]: What Roberta hopes the kids will learn as they pick up the instrument.
* [[The Magic Was Inside You All Along]]: What Roberta hopes the kids will learn as they pick up the instrument.
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* [[The Other Marty]]: ''Madonna'' was attached to the film to play Roberta, and had taken violin lessons for several months, before leaving the film citing "creative differences" with director Craven. Of course, we got '''Meryl Streep''' instead.
* [[The Other Marty]]: ''Madonna'' was attached to the film to play Roberta, and had taken violin lessons for several months, before leaving the film citing "creative differences" with director Craven. Of course, we got '''Meryl Streep''' instead.
* [[Time Skip]]: The second half of the film takes place around ten years after the events of the first, and several of Roberta's students, now grown up and accomplished musicians, return to help her with the fund-raising concert. Allegra the dog has also grown up, but she's still pretty jumpy for a 10+ year-old dog.
* [[Time Skip]]: The second half of the film takes place around ten years after the events of the first, and several of Roberta's students, now grown up and accomplished musicians, return to help her with the fund-raising concert. Allegra the dog has also grown up, but she's still pretty jumpy for a 10+ year-old dog.
* [[White Mans Burden]]: Several of the children and their mothers don't like that Roberta is trying to play messiah to the kids.
* [[White Man's Burden]]: Several of the children and their mothers don't like that Roberta is trying to play messiah to the kids.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Harlem is portrayed as this.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Harlem is portrayed as this.


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