The Music Man (2003 film)
The Music Man is a 2003 American television film directed by Jeff Bleckner and starring Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth.
Professor Harold Hill Matthew Broderick, a confidence artist who makes a living by selling instruments and uniforms to aspiring musicians he fails to teach once they are delivered, sets his sights on the naive citizens of River City, Iowa, as his latest targets. Hill is sitting on a train in the first scene, playing cards while listening to the passengers on the train talk about him and his cons Rock Island. Before getting off at River City, an anvil salesman named Charlie realizes who Hill is, but fails to catch him when he gets off the train. Charlie yells out the window of the train I wont forget your face, Hill before the train travels on, while Hill is stepping on to the fresh soil of Iowa.Harold Hill walks up to two men of the city on a ladder, asking where and if there was a hotel anywhere Iowa Stubborn. Hill moves on to find the hotel, and meets up with his former sidekick Marcellus Washburn, who now is living in the rural town and manages the hotel himself. Hill tells Marcellus of his new pitch, being a music professor. Marcellus warns Hill that he wont be able to sell the stubborn Iowans any instruments, partly because of the towns current music teacher, Marian, who also happens to be the librarian Kristin Chenoweth. Harold tells Marcellus that he plans to get Marian offbalanced and then tell the town how he was going to save them from terrible trouble. Marcellus tells Hill the town is in no trouble, and Harold replies that he will just have to make some. He convinces the residents their only hope of saving their sons from the corruption of the local pool hall is to allow him to create a marching band and help them develop their musical talents Ya Got Trouble. ........
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