Mr. Holland's Opus Of all the lives he changed, the one that changed the most was his own. Release date: 1995-12-29 Genres: Drama, Music Actors: Jay Thomas, William H. Macy, Forest Whitaker, Terrence Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Zoe McLellan, Alexandra Boyd, Damon Whitaker, Olympia Dukakis, John Henry Redwood, Alicia Witt, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, Glenne Headly, Don Burns, Joanna Gleason, Elizabeth Fournier, Anthony Natale, Jean Louisa Kelly, Michael Mendelson, Ted Roisum, Dan Vhay, Keith Swift, Mark Daniels, Linda Williams Janke, Rachel Wooley, Tara Eng, Janine Shouse, Benjamin J. Dixon, Beth Maitland, Joseph Anderson, Tomiko Peirano, Cazzey Louis Cereghino, Conan Doherty, David Clegg, Jordan Carlton, Aurora Miller, Paul Bernard, Chris Marth, Jay Frank, John Boyer, Kathryn Arnett, Nicholas John Renner, Sean Bevington, Kaili Carlton, Ashley Hamrick, Joshua Minnick, Adam Fitzhugh, Kasey Nelson, Freeman O. Corbin, Dennis Biasi, Patrick Fong, Spencer Riviera, Kevin Calaba, Joe Campbell, Moira Feeney, Brent Archie, Dieffyd Gilman-Frederick, Jacob Adams, Kelly M. Casey, Nicolas Sirianni, Alex Dudgeon, Mary Kay O'Mealy, Stacey Siegel Production: Alexander Emmert Budget: $31,000,000Revenue: $106,300,000 Runtime: 2 h. 23 min. Score: 7.0/10 Votes: 431 Countries: United States of America Companies: Hollywood Pictures, Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Charlie Mopic Company Available* : 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.