This charming motion picture opens in 1965 with one man's dream. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as Glenn Holland, a musician who had a desire to compose a symphony. .
As a teen, he had been given a John Coltrane album and listened to it only to dislike music. But assuming he was missing something that the giver had seen or heard, he listened again, and again, and again, until John Coltrane was all he wanted to hear. From that time on he knew that music was his calling. He was also called to teach in the same manner. The teaching job at John F. Kennedy High School was taken only as a day job to allow him to stop touring with his supper club band and provide time for him to compose his symphony. It turned out that teaching actually took all of his time. More importantly, he actually had the gift to teach as well.
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Several years go by. Holland's life is further complicated when he finds out that his son is almost entirely deaf. His son's disability was discovered when the horn of a fire truck sounded, while Holland lead the school band in a parade. Unable to draw the child into his musical world, he struggles to communicate and find common ground. Professional responsibilities consume him. Spare time is a myth and his symphony, along with his neglected family waits patiently in the wings.
A montage of '60's and '70's newsreel footage marks the passage of time. Graduating classes come and go. Holland's frustration mounts as the daily grind continues to distract him from pursuing his musical masterpiece. But revelation waits around the corner where Glenn Holland comes to realize that those constant interruptions to his lifelong ambition are themselves the stuff dreams are made of. The movie doesn't do anything spectacular until the final scene. It is here that Mr. Holland's effect on thirty years' worth of students is finally recognized when he conducts a Holland alumni-performed symphony he's been working on in his spare time.
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