Overview - Mr. Holland's Opus

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama
  • Music

Runtime: 143 minutes

Homepage: Mr. Holland's Opus

Budget

$31,000,000.00

Revenue

$106,300,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Hollywood Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Interscope Communications

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: The Charlie Mopic Company

    Production country

Overview

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Cast

  • Name: Richard Dreyfuss

    Character: Glenn Holland

    Popularity: 2.9503

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  • Name: Glenne Headly

    Character: Iris Holland

    Popularity: 2.2203

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  • Name: Jay Thomas

    Character: Bill Meister

    Popularity: 1.5294

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  • Name: Olympia Dukakis

    Character: Principal Jacobs

    Popularity: 1.7905

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  • Name: William H. Macy

    Character: Vice Principal Gene Wolters

    Popularity: 4.2786

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  • Name: Alicia Witt

    Character: Gertrude Lang

    Popularity: 2.8988

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  • Name: Terrence Howard

    Character: Louis Russ

    Popularity: 3.7665

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  • Name: Damon Whitaker

    Character: Bobby Tidd

    Popularity: 1.0226

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