Music of the Heart (1999)

Yearning for an old-fashioned movie with a well-told, uplifting message? Music of the Heart is playing your song.

Bring two boxes of tissue and a girlfriend to lean on for this blowout tearjerker.

The choppy film is like a composition crowded with competing themes.

Streep delivers another of her chameleon-like transformations in appearance, accent, and manner.

If "Mr. Holland's Opus" made you puke, you'd better bring a bucket to this true-life weepie about the importance of teaching music in schools.