Favorite Movie

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2006)

My best friend and I were seniors in high school when this movie came out and we also had a very motivating, wonderful music teacher whom we both adored and admired. We went to see this movie together and literally sobbed through just about the whole movie! I absolutely loved the way Richard Dreyfus portrayed Mr. Holland through all the stages of his teaching career. By the end of the movie, I felt that I actually knew Mr. Holland. I felt that I was able to take part in his career and that I gained something just from watching this movie. To this day, I consider Mr. Holland's Opus my very favorite movie to the point where nothing else even comes close!
Incidentally, my best friend and I are both now teachers and hope that we can have even some of the impact on our students that Mr. Holland was able to have on his.