30 years of a High School Music Teacher's Life

Rating: 9/10 (28 August 2018)

I am from the era when the high school arts programs were thrown away and male athletics were not. Like Forest Gump with the music and events flowing together almost seamlessly. A movie I need to view about every five years, to remind me that life never goes exactly as planned for anyone. I have issues with three things about the film: He almost has an affair with a gifted singer (and we never find out if she "makes it" on Broadway). Ironically, his only child is born deaf and it takes Mr. Holland over 20 years to realize just how clever and smart his son is. His "Magnum Opus" American Symphony is barely 6 minutes long after 30 years of composition? At least they didn't ruin the ending by having musical funding miraculously restored at the last minute. Life doesn't work like that. A superior film, but not everyone will appreciate it. It reminds me of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and "The Paper Chase" which are both about charismatic college professors