Tom is a musician whose last success with his band was 15 years ago. Now he is broke; even his beloved guitar has been repossessed and he must look for a proper job. With forged papers he apples for a temporary position as a music teacher at a Catholic school for students with learning disabilities. His approach to music education, a far cry from hitting a few notes on a triangle which is pretty much all his new students are used to, is to form a band: The Mongolettes.
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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.