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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Directed by Stephen Herek
“Of all the lives he changed, the one that changed the most was his own.”
Drama, Music · 2h 23m
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Cast
Richard Dreyfuss
Glenn Holland
Glenne Headly
Iris Holland
Jay Thomas
Bill Meister
Olympia Dukakis
Principal Jacobs
William H. Macy
Vice Principal Gene Wolters
Alicia Witt
Gertrude Lang
Terrence Howard
Louis Russ
Damon Whitaker
Bobby Tidd
Jean Louisa Kelly
Rowena Morgan
Alexandra Boyd
Sarah Olmstead
N
Nicholas John Renner
Cole at 6 Years Old
Joseph Anderson
Cole at 15 Years Old
Crew
- Director
- Stephen Herek
- Writer
- Patrick Sheane Duncan
- Director of Photography
- Oliver Wood
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Kamen
- Editor
- Trudy Ship
- Producer
- Robert W. Cort, Ted Field, Michael Nolin
Details
- Release date
- 1995-12-29
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Hollywood Pictures, Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Charlie Mopic Company
- Budget
- $31,000,000
- Box office
- $106,300,000