Mr. Holland's Opus

“Of all the lives he changed, the one that changed the most was his own.”

Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss), a working musician in 1965, takes a job teaching high school music to pay the bills while he writes the symphony he is sure will make his name. Stephen Herek follows him through the school years that pile up, with his wife Iris (Glenne Headly) beside him and a composition that stays unfinished on the piano. The longer Glenn stays, the more his own work is at risk of being left behind.