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Mr. Holland's Opus
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1711
- IMDb #1338
- Rotten Tomatoes #1628
- Letterboxd #2149
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2362
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1241
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- Metacritic Critics #2567
- Kinopoisk #1953
- AlloCiné #1377
- Trakt #1410
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 59, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 84.
See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Herek
- Writer
- Patrick Sheane Duncan
- Studio
- Hollywood Pictures, Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, The Charlie Mopic Company
- Released
- 29 December 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $31.0M
- Box office
- $106.3M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 68th Academy Awards 1996 | Best Actor | Richard Dreyfuss | Nominee |
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