Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Directed by Stephen Herek
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
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The movie spans some 30 years and is patterned after It's a Wonderful Life.
Similar in theme and content to Dead Poets' Society and It's a Wonderful Life, this movie persuades its audience that no life spent in a worthy pursuit is ever wasted.
Unlike the humanly flawed Glenn Holland played by Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland's Opus, Fletcher is maniacal and hard to connect with.
Forget about Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds , and Richard Dreyfus in Mr. Holland's Opus .
The closest analogue to Jay Kelly is actually Mr. Holland’s Opus.
If you’ve never been exposed to Stand and Deliver or Dangerous Minds or Mr. Holland’s Opus or Dead Poets Society or Lean on Me or Music of the Heart or Finding Forrester or Pay It Forward or Take the Lead , then have at it: you’ll probably love it.
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Much like the protagonist of Mr. Holland's Opus and those in a host of other if-you-can't-do-teach movies, Tripp, a promising young writer of yesteryear, achieves an early success a brush with celebrity, if you will and then, settles into a studied mediocrity.