Mr. Holland's Opus

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Release Year: 1996

MPAA Rating: PG

Genre: Drama

Director: Stephen Herek

Composer Glenn Holland believes that he'll eventually write a transcendent piece of music, but in the meantime he's taken a job at an Oregon high school. Though at first the job frustrates him, and his unconventional methods often draw the ire of the straight-laced vice principal, Mr. Holland grows to love his students as the ''temporary'' position stretches into a decades-long career -- and in the end, they reveal just how much they love him back.