Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) on Netflix
Glenn Holland takes a music teaching job at a Portland high school to free up time for his symphony. His classes do not take to music as he does.
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Plot summary
A musician and composer in Portland, Oregon, Glenn Holland takes a teaching post at John F. Kennedy High School, expecting it to give him time with his wife, Iris, and room to finish the symphony he has been writing. He has no classroom experience, and his classes do not take to music the way he does. Principal Helen Jacobs urges him to put his feeling for music into his work with the students, and the football coach, Bill Meister, helps him start a marching band. The job and the students claim more of him than he planned, and at home Iris is raising their son, Cole, who is deaf.
Cast
- Nicholas John Renneras Cole at 6 Years Old
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Composer Michael Kamen was so moved by the film that he founded the real-world Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation in 1996 to fund music education, a legacy that grew directly out of the fictional story.
- Composer Michael Kamen also wrote An American Symphony ("Mr. Holland's Opus"), the work on which Mr. Holland is shown working throughout the movie, and Kamen's arrangement won the 1997 Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement.
- The film was later adapted into a stage musical that had its world premiere at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine in 2022, with the book, lyrics and direction by Tony Award winner BD Wong.
