Music of the Heart

She gave them a gift they could never imagine. They gave the system a fight it would never forget.

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

Roberta

Aidan Quinn

Brian

Angela Bassett

Janet

Gloria Estefan

Isabel

Cloris Leachman

Assunta

Josh Pais

Dennis

Jane Leeves

Dorothea

Kieran Culkin

Lexi at 15

Charlie Hofheimer

Nick at 17

Jay O. Sanders

Dan Paxton

Henry Dinhofer

Lexi at 5

Michael Angarano

Nick at 7