Mr. Holland's Opus / Hollywood Pictures presents an Interscope Communications Polygram Filmed Entertainment Production ; in association with the Charlie Mopic Company ; a Stephen Herek film ; written by Patrick Sheane Duncan ; produced by Ted Field, Michael Nolin and Robert W. Cort ; directed by Stephen Herek.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 17491 | Buena Vista Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Hollywood Pictures Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©1999Description: 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0788816217
- 9780788816215
- Mr. Holland's opus (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Oliver Wood ; editor, Trudy Ship ; music, Michael Kamen.
- 1995 Academy Award nominee, best actor, Richard Dreyfuss.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 compositions doesn't pay the bills, so in 1965 he reluctantly accepts a job as a high school music teacher. Over the next 30 years, Holland is able to teach a great deal about both music and life to thousands of kids who pass through the various classes he leads and school bands he directs; however, he finds it easier to reach his students than his son Cole (played, as he grows older, by Nicholas John Renner, Joseph Anderson, and Anthony Natale), who is deaf, which drives a wedge between Glenn and his wife Iris (Glenne Headly). Richard Dreyfuss earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor for Mr. Holland's Opus; the cast also includes Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, and Jay Thomas. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (2.25:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.
In English or French with optional English captions for the hearing impaired; closed-captioned.
Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, W.H. Macy, Alicia Witt, Terrence Howard, Jean Louisa Kelly.
Director of photography, Oliver Wood ; editor, Trudy Ship ; music, Michael Kamen.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.
Rated PG.
1995 Academy Award nominee, best actor, Richard Dreyfuss.
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.
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.