Movie
Mr. Holland's Opus
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1995-12-29
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hollywood Pictures, Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Charlie Mopic Company
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Dreyfuss as Glenn Holland
- Glenne Headly as Iris Holland
- Jay Thomas as Bill Meister
- Olympia Dukakis as Principal Jacobs
- William H. Macy as Vice Principal Gene Wolters
- Alicia Witt as Gertrude Lang
- Terrence Howard as Louis Russ
- Damon Whitaker as Bobby Tidd
- Jean Louisa Kelly as Rowena Morgan
- Alexandra Boyd as Sarah Olmstead
- Nicholas John Renner as Cole at 6 Years Old
- Joseph Anderson as Cole at 15 Years Old
Crew
- Stephen Herek - Director
- Patrick Sheane Duncan - Writer
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