The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)

The youngadult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom Wisconsin The Greens share musical aspirations but daughter Rachel Madeline Zima a talented violinist is the one most likely to achieve them Norman Tom Irwin is a dairy farmer and Ingrid Glenne Headly is a choir director who abandoned the piano when she married and settled down but the Greens are a happy family for the most part The trick is finding a way to reconcile their dreams with a reality that may hold more riches than they realize When Norman gets a chance to conduct the local orchestra for the Dairy Days celebration its an opportunity for the family to come together not just with each other but with a community they had never fully appreciate