Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- high school
- husband wife relationship
- composer
- music teacher
- mentor
- deaf-mute
- portland
- oregon
- marching band
- teacher student relationship
- high school teacher
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Richard Dreyfuss
Glenn Holland
Glenne Headly
Iris Holland
Jay Thomas
Bill Meister
Olympia Dukakis
Principal Jacobs
- William H. Macy — Vice Principal Gene Wolters
- Alicia Witt — Gertrude Lang
- Terrence Howard — Louis Russ
- Damon Whitaker — Bobby Tidd
- Jean Louisa Kelly — Rowena Morgan
- Alexandra Boyd — Sarah Olmstead
- Nicholas John Renner — Cole at 6 Years Old
- Joseph Anderson — Cole at 15 Years Old
- Anthony Natale — Cole at 28 Years Old
- Joanna Gleason — Gertrude Lang as an adult
- Beth Maitland — Deaf School Principal
- Directed
- Stephen Herek
- Written
- Patrick Sheane Duncan
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 463 ratings
- Studio
- Hollywood Pictures, Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Charlie Mopic Company
If this stayed with you
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