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'''''Music of the Heart''''' is a 1999 dramatic/biopic film, directed by [[Wes Craven]] and starring [[Meryl Streep]]. The film is based on the documentary ''Small Wonders'', which chronicled the evolution of a violin program conducted for inner-city kids in Harlem. The woman who started this program is Roberta Guaspari, a renowned music educator who decided to start the program as she felt any child could learn to play the violin, and that it would be a good form of expression for the children who were growing up in a tough, tough neighbourhood. The events of the film lead up to a concert at Carnegie Hall, together with famous violinists who had volunteered to help. The film is notable for having most of the same violinists recreate that concert for the movie.
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* [[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.
* [[He Also Did]]: Hard to believe this is from the same director as ''[[A Nightmare
* [[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.
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