TY  - ADVS
AU  - Field,Ted
AU  - Nolin,Michael
AU  - Cort,Robert W.
AU  - Herek,Stephen
AU  - Duncan,Patrick Sheane
AU  - Kamen,Michael
AU  - Ship,Trudy
AU  - Dreyfuss,Richard
AU  - Headly,Glenne
AU  - Thomas,Jay
AU  - Dukakis,Olympia
AU  - Macy,William H.
AU  - Witt,Alicia
AU  - Kelly,Jean Louisa
ED  - Hollywood Pictures.
ED  - Interscope Communications (Firm)
ED  - PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm)
ED  - Charlie Mopic Company.
ED  - Hollywood Pictures Home Video (Firm)
ED  - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
TI  - Mr. Holland's Opus
SN  - 0788816217
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Burbank, Calif.
PB  - Hollywood Pictures Home Video, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
KW  - Music teachers
KW  - Drama
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995; Special features include production featurette; Program start -- Opening credits -- Inauspicious beginning -- Free time -- Off-key -- A poor compass -- Connective tissue -- Not just notes on a page -- Curriculum in question -- New Assignment -- Challenged -- Terrible news -- A mother's despair -- A momento -- Domestic discord -- Free advise -- Late night rehearsal -- A proposition -- At the bus depot -- Angry son -- A personal dedication -- An apology for the arts -- Surprise -- A symphony -- End credits; Director of photography, Oliver Wood ; editor, Trudy Ship ; music, Michael Kamen; Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, W.H. Macy, Alicia Witt, Terrence Howard, Jean Louisa Kelly; Rated PG
N2  - A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects
ER  -