So cliche

Rating: 3/10 (21 July 2003)

The start of Mr Holland in class says it all. He begins his class with the unanswerable question: 'what is music'. If I would begin like that, students would no longer take me seriously. And of course (I hope I do not spoil anything) the girl who cannot play the clarinet, succeeds. First in playing the clarinet and later on in life.
What I really disliked in the screenplay is the very fragmented way in which it is structured. The relationship with Mrs Jacobs is hardly elaborated on; what happens to the drummer happens all of a sudden. I think the director and scenarist took their jobs like Mr Holland took his initially: too light.