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| Mr Holland's Opus [1996] | ![Mr Holland's Opus [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VBE71YNQL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Stephen Herek
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3515
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: DVD
Running Time: 136 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070009378
ASIN: B00007DWRA
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 1996
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Amazon.co.uk Review
An earnest and sometimes overblown story of a music teacher's impact on those around him, iMr. Holland's Opus/i is at times a genuinely touching drama in the vein of iIt's a Wonderful Life/i. Richard Dreyfuss (iJaws/i, iClose Encounters of the Third Kind/i) plays an aspiring composer and musician who takes a job teaching music at a local high school to earn money while he composes. But when his wife (Glenne Headley) becomes pregnant, Glenn Holland must put aside his dreams and address the everyday realities of his life, from the melancholy and sometimes tragic fates of his students to the discovery that the son he cherishes is deaf. Building to a highly emotional climax in which the teacher sees the impact he's had on the world around him, iMr. Holland's Opus/i is a showcase for a fine Oscar-nominated performance by Dreyfuss and an engaging, heartwarming story. i--Robert Lane/i
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Subtitles October 10, 2008
I agree with other review, but one think is missing about this product: it has 4 subtitles.br /br /English hard of hearingbr /Frenchbr /Ungarianbr /Turkish
Words cant easily describe October 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is one of those films that after watching everything else in your dvd collection or at the cinema, you wish you had watched this 1 first. at first your not sure what to expect but for some reason you cant or dont want to turn it off, but i garuntee if you have the patience to watch this start to finish (odd scenes, but very powerful, meaningful, engrossing storylines) you will watch it again. br /this is definetly a film for anybody with a passion for music, its about 1 mans triumph and persistance that against all the odds (even thoguh you know from about 20mins in) to show his passion for something to people who wouldn't necessarily be interested.br /PLEASE jsut watch this film, i do and im sure 99% of others who have will promise you a good film.
How can we demand such a sacrifice from a teacher? March 20, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The blase will say that this is one more film on the life and retirement of a good teacher. One more and nothing else. They would be slightly wrong. This film is a lot more interesting and profound than that. First of all it becomes personal and poignant when his own son is discovered to be 90% deaf at birth. For a musician and music teacher tbis is a tragic blow, even if Beethoven became deaf in his life. Then it shows that a good teacher is not supposed to caress the students in the smooth way of things, but he has to be both exacting and demanding on one side and on the other side helpful in the effort the students have to do to eventually come to the pleasure of becoming able to play beautiful music. And it takes a tremendous effort on the teacher?s part to be that inspiring and ruthless guide who will teach rhythm and drumplaying to a black man who will die in Vietnam, sentiment and clarinet playing to the only daughter of a family who has no creative dimension, emotion and how to sing with her heart to a girl who would like to take her music teacher along with her to New York. But furthermore the film is also a vast trip from the sixties to the nineties, from Kennedy to ? the unnamed ? Clinton, with the Vietnam war at the back, Hair, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Nixon resigning, Ford falling when walking down from a plane, Reagan and his famous Hollywood smile, and of course the severe cuts in education in the mid-nineties that led to dropping all artistic activities from the curriculum of the school. And we could go on and on with levels of meaning that avoid mish-mash sentimentalism. And yet the end is kind of too much. How can we imagine the school, the principal and the whole community who have rejected the man at sixty without more ado than for an insignificant incident come together to unanimously present him with a farewell present that should have asked months of secret preparation ? And that present means that this Mr Holland has sacrificed all his personal and musical potential for the sake of teaching music to kids, including his composing and his musical inspiration. This leads to the saddest fact of all : education is based on a frustrating dedication from the teachers. A dedication that verges onto sacrifice, of one?s own life and of one?s family?s life, and a frustration that stifles in the teacher what is his deepest and most insanely creative inspiration, which delivers him to retirement a hollow shell with an uncatchable ghost of a dead ambition. This film is thus very painful : as long as our school system will demand such sacrifices from its teachers it will lead to a deeply boring and frustrating education that will leave young people naked and unarmed in front of life when the real hardships of history come, and they always come back over and over again.pDr Jacques COULARDEAU, Universite Paris Dauphine, Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne
Riveting "Over the top" tear jerking formula April 28, 2005
How many "teachers save our youth" movies can you watch? "To Sir with Love", "Blackboard Jungle", "Saving Forester", and so on and so on. Since you ask, At least one more time. br /Mr. Holland wants to write music and believes that teaching will give him the free time to compose. Slowly he gets sucked into the teaching environment and eventually this becomes his focus to the exclusion of his deaf son. Will he see what he is doing? Will he care? Or maybe skip town with a talented singer (Rowena)?br /br /br /This well paced film that does not save hooligans but enriches an otherwise droll school experience and encourages more than just the basics.br /br /A twist on the standard formula is the emphasis from the beginning on Holland more than a student or two. We see how he learns from the school environment and incorporates his life into the life of the school. Richard Dreyfuss being the main character may over shadow good acting by Olympia Dukakis and William H. Macy among others. There are several inspiring moments and some sobering moments.br /In all it is worth the time and you will want to watch it again. br /br /
mr holland March 27, 2004
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
fantastic family film, full of good moral values as well as good music a fun outlook, truly moving
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