Thank you, Theressa Lyles, Bruce Livingston, and Kay Selmer.

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2019)

The three people named in my review title are music teachers who shaped my life and made me a musician with a love of music that still endures today.
MR HOLLAND'S OPUS tells the tale of a man who dreams of fame as a composer but who is forced by circumstances to take a teaching position in a local high school.
Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss in perhaps his finest performance since JAWS) arrives on his first day to encounter the Principal (Olympia Dukakis), Vice Principal (William H Macy), and Phys Ed Teacher (Jay Thomas).
At first Glenn Holland seems to be a fish out of water, lost in an environment that he does not understand and really does not want to. But he has a wife at home (Glenne Headley shines) and later on they have a son who turns out to be deaf (it's a little heavy on plot and characters at this point, but stay with it and let it lift you up.)
Finding out his son is deaf is a terrible blow to Glenn. He fights it but finally his wife cries out "I want to talk to my son!!" And finally he begins to listen.
I won't say anymore. Only a word of advice that viewers keep tissues on hand because this one is the biggest weepie since Douglas Sirk's IMITATION OF LIFE.
Ten stars because even with flaws (it has a few) it's probably one of the best films of 1995.