MOVIE · 1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
Drama144 min
In 1965, aspiring composer Glenn Holland takes a job teaching music at a high school, convinced the classroom is only a stop on the way to writing the great piece he imagines for himself. Richard Dreyfuss is Holland, carrying the story through decades of rehearsals, marching bands, and changing students as that unfinished opus stays just out of reach. At home, his wife (Glenne Headly) shares the strain of a life shaped by school schedules, money worries, and the needs of their profoundly deaf son. As the years pass, the work he once treated as temporary begins to define both his family life and his legacy.
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