Summary:
A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance. However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own compositions doesn't pay the bills, so in 1965 he reluctantly accepts a job as a high school... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Richard Dreyfuss - (Glenn Holland)
Glenne Headly - (Iris Holland)
Jay Thomas - (Bill Meister)
Olympia Dukakis - (Principal Jacobs)
William H. Macy - (Vice Principal Wolters)
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Review:
Richard Dreyfuss gives a stirring performance in director Stephen Herek's sentimental tribute to a music teacher's career. Dreyfuss plays an aspiring composer of symphonies whose ambition fades as his life is increasingly taken over by his job has a high school music teacher. Although it ignores the fact that nearly all serious (read cla... Continue >>

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