Mr.Hollands Opus

Plot outline

Mr. Holland's Opus is a 1995 American drama film in which Richard Dreyfuss plays Glenn Holland, a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while trying to compose one memorable piece of music to make him famous. Through this experience, however, he discovers a passion for teaching he didn't know he had, and ends up dedicating more of himself to it.

Mr. Holland's Opus is presented as a video biography of the 30-year career of the eponymous lead character, Glenn Holland, as a music teacher at the fictional John F. Kennedy High School in Portland, Oregon.