Cast of
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

About The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

  • Released on August 27, 2000

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

Full Cast of The Sandy Bottom Orchestra

Glenne Headly
plays Ingrid Green

Glenne Headly as Ingrid Green

Glenne Aimee Headly (born March 13, 1955 -June 8, 2017) was an American actress of film, stage and television. Descr...

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Tom Irwin
plays Norman Green

Tom Irwin as Norman Green

Tom Irwin (born June 1, 1956) is an American film, television, and stage actor.

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Madeline Zima
plays Rachel Green

Madeline Zima as Rachel Green

Madeline Rose Zima (born September 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is mostly known for her six years as Grace S...

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Jane Powell
plays Delia Ferguson

Richard McMillan
plays Jim Sykes

Roger Dunn
plays Mayor Broadbent

Elizabeth Lennie
plays Angie Wyman

Tamara Hope
plays Carol Wyman

Lindsay Murrell
plays Valerie

Shadia Simmons
plays Jenny

Wendy Lyon
plays Mrs. Erickson


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