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Summary: one of the best!
Review: For any music lover this movie is a real treat. I have been someone who has been inspired by my music teacher so this movie really hits home. It's a beautiful, tear jerking movie done to absolute perfection.
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Summary: Best Movie I have Ever Watched
Review: This Movie Is very inspirational I love this movie it is so close to My heart It Will Make you laugh and cry all at the same time and great Direction
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Summary: Warm Plot, Rich Production
Review: The quality of Mr. Holland's Opus spreads evenly throughout its plot, its message, and its marvelous appreciation of music and the arts. In fact, this movie delivers both definition and demonstration of music appreciation as a whole, absent of selective bias. Devoid of senseless killings, violence, or notable language, Opus is a family movie without the corny overtones. For many it's a tearjerker.But Mr. Holland's Opus unfolds an issue. It is a simple plea for an increase in music appreciation among society--particularly our young people. Mr. Holland's career is pressured more and more by the gradual, yet perpetual governmental cuts in school funding for the arts amid the US. In sharp contrast, the movie makes it clear that support for the sports programs in public schools remain firm and solid. Careful to avoid cursing this predicament or hurling insults toward society, this message is rather Hollywood's way of calmly saying, "Take a look," using the common life of an otherwise forgotten music teacher. The central beauty of the movie is in the character of Mr. Holland himself. He is an ardent yet sensible lover of music. The viewer will find no arrogance or snootiness in Mr. Holland. It's not his style. Instead, Holland's concern for the progressive loss of interest in the arts is voiced simply, directly, and peacefully. The movie delivers a powerful message through ordeals within his family. Struggling with the hardships of common fate (and some not so common), Holland learns new depths of love and companionship from both his wife and son. He is a man of emotions like anyone else. He looses his temper on occasions. But Mr. Holland is always in control of himself. He deals with pressures to the best of his ability as they occur. Mr. Holland is a believable person. The viewer is free to place him into society with the rest of the world and to walk in his shoes for a spell. A superb job from the entire cast of characters, the journey is emotionally rewarding.
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Summary: Exelently Wonderfull!
Review: This is a wonderful movie higlighting the life of a music teacher and his trials through life! It shows how at first he was forced into teaching but in the end grew to love the position and the students! This movie also exposes the tension that the administration poses on teachers! This movie is truly wonderfull! It is my favorite and I would recomend it to anyone!
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Summary: An Opus It's Not
Review: Like so many movies of the "feel-good" variety, Mr. Holland's Opus is little more than a magic carpet ride of top ten hits. It vague condescension fools you into long sobs, but your better sense tells you they're all just crocodile tears. It's the Bad News Bears with a backbeat.
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Summary: A Classic.....For Music Enthusiasts and Others
Review: Mr. Holland's Opus was a movie that inspires every person who even considers a position in education. Dreyfus' Character is very believeable, and truly exemplifies the role of a Music Teacher. It inspires me to do work of my own and help others with theirs.
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Summary: This movie is a summary of Baby Boomer life!
Review: Watching this movie was like reviewing my life - the sights, music, feelings, political atmosphere, and I have carried with me what I consider the theme of this movie, a quote from Lennon's song, "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" that Richard Dreyfuss sang - "LIFE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHILE YOU'RE BUSY MAKING OTHER PLANS" With good humor and emotion, the movie reminds us to love our lives and not miss anything. I've watched it about 9 times (so far).
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Summary: A poignant film, with such wonderful knowledge of music.
Review: This is a really enthralling film. In the beginning, you find that he is experiencing "sods law." He is a music teacher, and the only thing that he cares about next to his family is music. Then he finds out that the son he adores so much is deaf. After that, the bond between them grows weaker. But gradually, he begins to accept the way his son thinks, and realises that although he is deaf, he can still understand and appreciate music much more than Glen Holland thought...
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Summary: Great! I love this!
Review: I love this movie! Everyone should have a chance to watch this wonderful movie! I feel bad for the people who don't get to watch this movie.
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Summary: Wonderful, heartwarming!
Review: Mr Holland's Opus is a wonderful movie about the life of one man and all the people he has touched over his 30 years of teaching... ironically at first he didn't want to teach, and hated the job. What really touched me the most was his son, because I'm deaf too, and I experienced many of the same frustrations growing up with my hearing parents. The movie does an excellent job of showing the extra challenges involved when a deaf child is born to hearing parents. I, like he was fortunate enough to have parents who learned how to communicate with me... if only more families were like that....
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