Mr. Holland's Opus is one of the great movies of the 90s

Rowena.

If you don't cry when Mr. Holland sings Beautiful Boy, you don't have a son. Or a dad. Or you're not human.

Came out when I was a teenager, hated it. I'll have to rewatch it as an adult.

Gotta tell y’all I love this movie, great story & well put together. Olympia Dukakis was solid-“moral compass”

But the actual opus sucked. Needed John Williams to write it.

I prefer Mr. Holland's Owed Puss. It's a classic.

This and Finding Forrester are 2 of my favorites.

I’ve always felt Mr. Holland was a bit of an a-hole and that Dick Dreyfus was pretty unlikeable in playing him.

Not sure if it was intentional to show that he was flawed, but he treated his son like crap. Angry at him and the world because he was born deaf.

Then he almost took advantage of a young, maturing Rowena.

Having said that, I’d love to see an update w this being ‘Mrs Holland’s Opus.’ She would undoubtedly be banging students within the first 20 minutes.

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Not sure if it was intentional to show that he was flawed, but he treated his son like crap.

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Everyone has flaws. That is not the story.

The story is how they, hopefully, overcome them which Holland did with his son.