This charming motion picture opens in 1965 with one man's dream. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as Glenn Holland, a musician who had a desire to compose a symphony.
As a teen, he had been given a John Coltrane album and listened to it only to dislike music. But assuming he was missing something that the giver had seen or heard, he listened again, and again, and again, until John Coltrane was all he wanted to hear. From that time on he knew that music was his calling. He was also called to teach in the same manner. The teaching job at John F. Kennedy High School was taken only as a day job to allow him to stop touring with his supper club band and provide time for him to compose his sym
"Mr. Holland's Opus", is a movie that promotes a solid work ethic, the importance of the arts in education and balance in life-between passions and priorities, talent and effort, knowledge and vision. During a particularly trying period, an active student's crush forces Holland to reevaluate his feelings and commitments, offering a valuable lesson about temptation and marital fidelity. Holland learns that true success lies in relationships.
A montage of '60's and '70's newsreel footage marks the passage of time. Graduating classes come and go. Holland's frustration mounts as the daily grind continues to distract him from pursuing his musical masterpiece. But revelation waits around the corner where Glenn Holland comes to realiz
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