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Plot: This Oscar-nominated documentary (which inspired the 1999 film Music of the Heart) follows the struggles of Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras as she teaches violin to youngsters in East Harlem, N.Y. After bud...( read more read more... )get cuts slash her school's music program, she creates a nonprofit organization to train children selected by lottery, and her disciplinarian style pays off as her charges reap the rewards. Fiddlers Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern make appearances.

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Recent Reviews

  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 4, 2008
    Great as a MST3K, godawful by itself. Merlin opens a shop in modern times with the hopes of reawakening magic in the world by... letting loose evil spirits and killing pets?! It's framed as a cute fairytale, but it's filled with demons and flaming animals. I pity the kids who watched this when it came out.
  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 4, 2007
    I've only seen this in it's MST3K incarnation. The MST3K episode ROCKED, but oh dear lawd child does this film eat it. Take my word that it is NOT for children.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 17, 2007
    How was this a PG?! As a kid I would spent the whole hour and a half crying. Not as bad as I was expecting, it was certainly entertaining enough.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 5, 2006
    What a completely misleading title!

    This movie deals far too much with Satan to have such a cute name. Again, please try and watch this one as a MST3K episode.

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  • triseult
    I'm guessing Otto37 means 'skip TO the MST3K version'... Why you'd want to watch this by itself instead of with the funny commentary is beyond me.
    posted 33 days ago
  • Otto37
    The first sequence (created for this film but looking like an episode of "Tales From The Darkside") involves a pompous, cranky newspaper critic who begins casting spells using Merlin's spell book. The second story, obviously a short film from the early 1980s, is about an evil monkey doll (you know, the wicked grin and the cymbals?) who kills every time his hands clap. Not for small children. Skip the Mst3k version.
    posted 670 days ago

Details

  • Rated: (Unrated)
  • Directed by: Allan Miller, Kenneth J. Burton
  • Genres: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Documentary, Horror
  • Released: December 31, 1995
  • DVD Released: October 23, 2007

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