 What is the plot of Music of the Heart?
The movie has a scope that makes Hollywood's homiletic, follow-your-dream fables look even more solipsistic. It's the beginning of what Bill McKibben called "the end of nature"--that is, when nature became no longer an autonomous, self-regulating force but one touched (and, in Miyazaki's view, poisoned) by human industry. Gillian Anderson's growling Moro sounds silly (she doesn't have the breath control), and the fey-hick tones of Billy Bob Thornton are too recognizable as the Akim Tamiroff-like mercenary, Jigo.
 After a budget cut, a violin teacher in East Harlem arranges a fundraiser at Carnegie Hall.
 After a budget cut, a violin teacher in East Harlem arranges a fundraiser at Carnegie Hall.  A white lady teaches violin in East Harlem.  A violin teacher in East Harlem takes her students to Carnegie Hall.  East Harlem students hate their perfectionist violin teacher.