The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

The young-adult 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 it's an opportunity for the family to come together not just with each other but with a community they had never fully appreciate