A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance. However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1995 | Running Time: 142 minutes
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$13.99MR HOLLAND'S OPUS
Richard Dreyfuss gives a stirring performance in director Stephen Herek's sentimental tribute to a music teacher's career. Dreyfuss plays an aspiring composer of symphonies whose ambition fades as his life is increasingly taken over by his job has a high school music teacher. Although it ignores the fact that nearly all serious (read classical) composers earn their living as teachers, the film is a rare entry in a once flourishing genre: the tribute to a life of selfless dedication. A specialty ...more
- Richard Dreyfuss - Glenn Holland
- Glenne Headly - Iris Holland
- Jay Thomas - Bill Meister
- Olympia Dukakis - Principal Jacobs
- William H. Macy - Vice Principal Wolters
- Ashley Hamrick - Miss Reeves
- Linda Williams Janke - Secretary
- Beth Maitland - Deaf School Principal
- Chris Math - Football Player
- Michael Mendelson - Chaplain
- Aurora J. Miller - Auditioner
- Joshua Minnick - Mr Shapiro
- Kasey Nelson - Girl
- Mary Kay O'Mealy - Auditioner
- Stephen Herek - Director
- Scott Kroopf - Executive Producer
- Patrick Sheane Duncan - Executive Producer
- Michael F. Nolin - Producer
- Ted Field - Producer
- Robert W. Cort - Producer
- Patrick Sheane Duncan - Screenwriter
- Dina Lipton - Art Director
- Sharon Bialy - Casting
- Bruce McDonald - Choreography
- Judith James - Co-producer
- William Teitler - Co-producer
- Aggie Guerard Rodgers - Costume Designer
- Jeffrey Wetzel - First Assistant Director













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