THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Rating: G
Duration: 174 mins
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
Genre: Drama, family, musical
A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world’s best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.