director – Francois Girard

producers – Judy Cairo, Carol Baum and Jane Goldenring

script – Ben Ripley

camera – David Franco

editor – Gaetan Huot

music – Brian Byrne

production designer – Jane Musky

An INFORMANT MEDIA/EMBANKMENT MEDIA production

intl. sales – EMBANKMENT FILMS

cast:

Dustin Hoffman (Carvelle), Kathy Bates (Headmistress), Eddie Izzard (Drake), Debra Winger (Ms. Steel), Josh Lucas (Gerard), Garrett Wareing (Stet)

 

Stet is an angry eleven-year-old who can sing like an angel. Left an orphan after his mother is killed in a car accident, Stet ends up in an East Coast musical boarding school — a place about as different from his small Texas town as can be. Feeling misunderstood, out of place, and frustrated with the cards life has dealt him, Stet finds himself at odds with Choirmaster Carvelle, a disciplinarian of the old school. But Carvelle recognizes something in Stet's voice, and pushes the boy to put his troubled young soul into the music.