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.
$27,000,000
$14,859,394
October 29, 1999
Craven-Maddalena Films, Miramax
96 people
Meryl Streep
Roberta
Acting
Aidan Quinn
Brian
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Angela Bassett
Janet
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Gloria Estefan
Isabel
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Cloris Leachman
Assunta
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Josh Pais
Dennis
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Jane Leeves
Dorothea
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Kieran Culkin
Lexi at 15
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Charlie Hofheimer
Nick at 17
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Jay O. Sanders
Dan Paxton
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Henry Dinhofer
Lexi at 5
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Michael Angarano
Nick at 7
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