Original, Insightful, And Thoroughly Entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2005)

MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS **** Director Stephen Herek and script-writer Patrick Sheane Duncan create a motion picture that is original, insightful, and thoroughly entertaining with 'Mr. Holland's Opus'. We follow the story of a young piano composer (Richard Dreyfuss), whose love for music leads him to become a music teacher. He inspires a love of music and artistic freedom in his students in the different seasons of his career while he deals with hardships at home. The story's memorable ending excellently closes this wonderfully engendered film. Alicia Witt, Terrence Howard, and Jean Louisa Kelly are the three particular students Dreyfuss connects with throughout his career, and Glenne Headly plays his wife. A winner.