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Mr. Holland's Opus is a 1995 American drama film directed by Stephen Herek, produced by Ted Field, Robert W. Cort, and Michael Nolin, and written by Patrick Sheane Duncan. [3] The film stars Richard Dreyfuss in the title role of Glenn Holland, a dedicated high-school music teacher who attempts to compose his own music while struggling to ...
The score was recorded by the London Metropolitan Orchestra for the film and issued in an 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 minute version on the original motion picture soundtrack. [1] It was the second work on Kamen's 2001 album The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms (a symphonic poem), played in an 18-minute version by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Simon Mulligan (piano), Leila Josefowicz (violin), Michael Kamen ...
Mr. Holland's Opus: 1995: The American drama film features a hearing high school music teacher who aspires to compose music. He and his hearing wife have a deaf son, whom the teacher finds hard to accept due to the impossibility of his son hearing his intended composition. The teacher grows to accept his son as well as his own life. [33] [66 ...
Cue the rock and roll. William H. Macy has taken on countless standout roles spanning his 50-year career. And 1995’s Mr. Holland’s Opus was no different, as he played Vice Principal Wolters ...
His involvement with Mr. Holland's Opus, a film about a frustrated composer who finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher, led Kamen to create The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation in 1996. The foundation supports music education through the donation of new and refurbished musical instruments to underserved school and community music ...
She was widely known for her roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy, and Mr. Holland's Opus. Headly received a Theatre World Award and four Joseph Jefferson Awards and was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. [1] In 2017, Headly appeared in two films, The Circle and Just Getting Started. The latter marked her final film role, released ...
Genvid wants to bootstrap a new category of large-scale interactive games that unfold in real-time — based on well-known movie, comic book or gaming franchises. It’s banked a big $113 million ...
Three motion pictures have been filmed at Grant High School: The made-for-TV movie Reunion (1980), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), and Nearing Grace (2005). Funded by a $482 million bond measure approved in 2012, a two-year modernization and expansion project of Grant High School began in June 2017 and was completed in the summer of 2019.