A Great Life! Watching *Mr. Holland's Opus* for the FIRST TIME
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Celebrated actor Richard Dreyfuss earned an Academy Award nomination (Best Actor, 1995) for his unforgettable role in this heartwarming tale about the importance of following your passion. Glen Holland is a musician who dreams of composing one truly memorable piece of music, but reality intrudes when he reluctantly accepts a "day job" as a high school music teacher to support his family. Ultimately, Mr. Holland realizes that his true passion is teaching and his legacy is the generations of young people he inspires.
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy
Director: Stephen Herek
Genres: Drama
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I saw this one movie a day ago and wish to see my favorite two reactors see it. It's called PAW Patrol: The Movie. Please react to it!
As a teacher this movie cannot help but touch you. Unfortunately most of us dont get a big heartfelt send off like Mr Holland got. Many teachers deserve one though.
Thank you for teaching
Mr Holland touched her alright
Thank you for the appreciation.
As a former music teacher I get it. That send off rarely happens unless you are a beloved football coach or something. One thing I can say about school budgets for the arts....you'll never see a weed growing in a football stadium...they'll cut the arts first. We have a musically ignorant nation who also thinks the Mona Lisa was painted by Taylor Swift...
@@thomastimlin1724 I get your point but who tf thinks that last part😭
I know they refer to Cole by name throughout the movie... But what you missed in the introduction of him was his full name, Coltrane 😉 named after John Coltrane and the record store story🥰
My dad spent his career as a music teacher. All my brothers and I had him as a band teacher. When he passed away, I heard from SOO many of his former students telling me what an impact he had made in their lives. So this movie, as well as the Dan Fogelberg song “Leader of the Band,” have special places in my heart.
I'm right there with you!! They did give my Daddy a pretty cool retirement concert and banquet. He retired in '97 and passed away in 2021 just 2 months shy of his 90th birthday (and 4 months shy of Mom & Dad's 70th wedding anniversary!). "Leader of the Band" brings me to tears every time!
@@leslieoneal4464 The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man
I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band
@@benrast1755 ❤🎶❤
@@leslieoneal4464 Leader of the Band was a very personal song for Dan Fogelberg and a great song at that.
Although he didn't win, Richard Dreyfuss got an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in 1995.
Correct...he lost to Nicholas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas that year
Who won?
@@RLucas3000 As I said above....Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas
I think it was 96 not 95
@mjz_ausmz8019 Maybe they meant the ceremony was in 96 for the year 95 in film.
I saw this film when it came out in the cinema, and I cried my eyes out. It’s such an underrated film. Great cast, and great story. I had a teacher when I was 11 who noticed that I was awful at math and still counted on my fingers. I was almost about to go to high school here in Australia. He got my mother to come to the school and explained what was happening. Every day he roneoed (yes, old purple smelly, wet roneo copies) of maths tables and got mum to grill me at home. Then every morning I went in early and he tested me. I have never forgotten him. I’m now 66.
That's an interesting word you used there, roneoed, completely unfamiliar, so much so that I assumed it was a typo. But once you described it, I realized what you were talking about was what here in the US was called a mimeograph. Just another instance of one thing having multiple names depending on where we are. Good day to you!
My 🇦🇺 high school maths teacher didn’t give a shit about teaching. He also ran the school football team and l tried to play and he told me l was useless and l should loose weight. Most of the teachers were just there for the pay and never inspired any of us.
I taught for 40 years all in the same town. I taught sixth grade, but also helped put on a 6th grade musical for many years. Seeing former students become successful in many different walks of life is a great reward. I love this movie and am so glad you reacted to it. I can never get through it without tearing up several times.
This movie begins in 1964, the first school year after the Kennedy assassination (hence the school being renamed).
Thanks for your reaction. Richard Dreyfuss is a great actor.
I met my husband when I was 17 and we connected through our love of music. Our first date was a night at my parent's house sitting on the couch watching this movie. We loved it then and after 25 years of marriage, it is still a movie we absolutely adore. ❤
A very underrated film.
Your thoughts after the reaction, are very VERY VALUABLE for people to hear. SO WONDERFUL:)
It all comes from the heart
This movie came out when I was in high school, and all of my friends were in the band, so this was one of our favorites. I've seen it more times than I can count, and I still cry every single time they play the American Symphony at the end. It took place over 30 years, and it's hard to believe the movie is almost 30 years old itself. And it's still as amazing today as it was back then.
Yes, his opus was the people -- that is put so well -- "They were his notes." Thank you for this reaction.
As a once-upon-a-time music teacher, I can't help but adore this film. I am so glad you got the chance to watch it.
I was a trumpet player up until my early 30s. Used to arrange music for various churches. Changed careers and had to stop playing shortly before being diagnosed with lupus. Watching your reaction to this great movie!
During my high school years, I had several teachers (the band director, the choir director and the theater director) who impacted my life and the person I would eventually become in very positive and powerful ways. Eventually, I became a teacher myself and spent my career looking for ways to pass it forward.
My band director in high school had also been there for many many years....I call her own town's own little Mr Holland
I loved this so much when it came out because I wasn't a teacher but I was a sports coach. I coached kids for 18 years just as a hobby and favor to a private school for free. The biggest satisfaction I ever got was after 10 years or so one of our players who was shy, quiet and a had no friends when we started gave me a big hug at the end of the season and told me thank you. She left our school that year with a dozen new friends and confidence to go forward in life. It still makes me tear up when I think about it 34 years later. This song has been on my phone since 2008.
I was the drum major of my HS marching band, and I can tell you that some people have a surprisingly difficult time learning how to march. Also, I was married for a long time to a US Army drill sergeant and he had LOTS of stories about teaching people to march, some of them hilarious.
saw this when I was super young and didnt appreciate it at all. Absolutely worth revisiting after growing up a bit, hits so hard
I'm a musician and music is ny life and passion. I loved this movie growing up. When my wife was pregnant with our son, I used to play music through headphones on my wife's belly just like in the movie. I would play all my favorite songs. Well life imitates art. My son was born deaf. I struggled in the early years coming to terms with this. The scene where the mom screams "I want to talk to my son" wrecks me every time. Just a gut punch to my soul. I know that all too well.
Rowena Morgan is the same actress as Tia, the older niece from the movie "Uncle Buck".
She also was a main character on the TV show Yes Dear.
One of the most beautiful movies ever!!!So special , so touching!!
My son played trumpet in middle, high school & college. ❤I love horns. 😊
I was 22 when I first watched this movie in the theatre and was the last person to leave after it emptied out as I'd been weeping so hard. My father and brother, newly estranged that year are estranged still. Through many years, that have flown by like the career of Mr Holland flew by and I was always the go-between, trying, but failing to heal the breach. In the early Noughties I gifted my well worn DvD copy of this film to my Dad. I watched it with him thinking he would see the parallels with his own life and have some kind of epiphany. It didn't happen. It went completely over his head. 2 years later, I emigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand from England, leaving them both behind and still estranged. It's been 25 years since they last met, and this movie makes me weep every time. Always because its such a good movie, but also because it reminds me of my failure with those two. I wept all over again sharing your first encounter with this genius of a movie, mainly because you grasped the themes so effortlessly and so well in the way that I wanted my own father to grasp them. I've gone on too long , but that's a major part of the reason I had to put an entire planet and all 12 timezones between them and my still aching heart.
What a sad, sad story. And I know people have told you that there's no failure on your part here, but it's very true. No one can force another person to change the way they feel and obviously there are very strong feelings driving your dad and brother apart. Getting as far away as possible was undoubtedly the smartest thing you could've done, for everyone. That's all I wanted to say. Best wishes to you.
Alicia Witt aka Gertude the Clarinet player, learned to play Clarinet for her role. She is a child prodigy classically trained pianist among other things.
I was in marching band, which I absolutely LOATHED! I was SO glad when I left high school!
Another great one about a teacher is Stand and Deliver. 1988. Based on a true story. With the great Edward James Olmos.
I'm a sucker for a good teacher movie, and I think this is the best teacher movie there is.
Edit: I can't decide if this or Dead Poets Society is my favorite.
Love this movie. That's all. That's the comment.
This movie got me when I watched it and now 20 years later it got me again 😂
Oh my gosh, James!!! I knew this movie was right up your alley! It’s one of my first pick suggestions for you to watch.
This is one of my most favorite of all times. It’s such a beautiful movie!
Fabulous reaction ❤
We had a band instructor that was just as loved. Thank you, Mr V (Vukmanich) for being such an inspiration to so many of your students and our school!
R.I.P. Glenne Headly.
I love Richard, try his "Good-bye Girl"❤❤.
Love all the things with Richard Drefuss- "Goodbye Girl" and "Who's Life is it Anyway" are to faves.
My brother first showed me this movie when we were kids and we watched it all the time. Love it so much, never fails to make me feel emotional!
Because of dad's attitude towards rock and roll, I mainly listened to what he liked. I was an 80s kid, but I didn't hear much of the music from that era. A bit like you and movies, etc. At home, it was classical, celtic folk , pre rock 50s, as well as old country western music. In the 90s, we left him. He was abusive. One of my sisters moved in, and I introduced to her to my generations music. In return, she introduced us to older artists. Most of which Mum loved, too. Except for the rock/heavy metal type of music. She didn't try and stop me listening to it. But I had to wait until she left the house before I could turn it up. Amongst my siblings, you can either play an instrument or sing with a mezzo-soprano voice. My sister who moved in with us, and I are the singers. But I have a neice who has a trained Soprano voice. She also plays the piano, cello, and violin.
Underrated gem. When I first saw this, for some reason I had thought the firetruck horn gave baby Cole a heart attack and he died of fright.
Jean Louisa Kelly is a superb singer. Hard to believe she played the angsty teen brat in Uncle Buck
I love this movie, but I can't watch it as often as some others since I end up crying over something in it like every ten minutes. You know. lol Enjoyed this!!
“Make your classes fun” - is one of the hardest things for a teacher to do with 35 disinterested teens in the room.
I knew that you'd love this movie! It's so good and I do enjoy happy tears.
Always end up having grit in my eye when I watch this film, always. 🥺👏🏻👏🏻👍
I remember crying the first time l seen this. Especially the beautiful boy by scene. I was discovering Lennon at the time and didn’t know this was a song written for his son Sean.
I’ve cried with you a couple of times through this reaction.
My parents met in marching band! Momma was a majorette and Daddy kept poking her in the back with his trombone slide. No joking. 😂👍❤
You would absolutely LOVE these movies, which should be next btw...."Whiplash", "Lean On Me" and "Amadeus" ❤🎶
As an amateur hack musician that should have been a music educator but life got in the way, this movie gets me every time. Always enjoy your reactions!
Wow, it's been decades since I've seen this movie! Tears!
I was a trumpet player in school (middle school through college) including high school and college marching band. I saw this in the theater when it came out and it definitely resonated with me being a band kid (I was in middle school at the time). Funny enough, we actually played “The American Symphony” in high school band one year during concert band season. One of the publishing firms arranged it for school band so that was a fun one (no electric guitars though like in the movie, lol).
Also, you are definitely right about marching band, it’s not a one person job. Maybe some of the really small schools that have tiny marching bands could get away with only the director and student leaders assisting but most had at least a second staff person that handled some of the visual and drill elements. Sometimes even more staff though along with volunteers to handle a lot of the logistics. College is even bigger, my college band had about 4-5 people on regular staff under the director along with student leaders, grad student assistants, and additional staff that only worked game days.
I’m so glad you watched this!! 😭 It’s by far one of my favorite films.
Just FYI, the first graduation class we see, with Gertrude, is 1965. We see the school is being re-named at the very start to JFK.
This is one of my favorite movies, but it’s hard to watch cause I end up crying during half of it. I’m glad you watched this one.
That year I really hoped Richard Dreyfuss would get the Oscar.
He did work on a project in his living room in the other movie, he built a model of the flat top hill Devil's peak or so. That was his opus.
I've played the Trombone since the summer of 1995. I loved jazz band, but my favorite was marching band. I was 2nd chair in the symphonic/honor band here in Houston, Texas. I remember my junior year in high school (2000-2001), we went to the Battle of the Bands (marching bands) that was held in Washington D.C.. We were one of 33 bands that competed. Before the entrance to the stadium, I rolled my foot on the sidewalk. Boy did that hurt! My band director asked if I was able to perform. I said there's nothing that is going to get me out. So, we performed our 4-show competition show. I mention this because, like you said, there's a lot that goes into marching band. One aspect is you have to roll your feet on the outside part of your foot as you march. Try doing that with a broken ankle! Lol. That's what happened to my ankle. I broke it when I rolled my foot off the sidewalk...ouch! But I sucked it up and performed. We finished 4th place in the competition. Well, sir, thank you for your great reaction!!!
Thanks for the story, appreciate it
One of THE BEST movies I've ever watched! ❤
Makes me cry Everytime I watch it
Absolutely FANTASTIC MOVIE!!!
Damn someone needs a hug
Hey James, your doing really good on recognizing the actors. Bravo..Enjoy the show.
22:48 I see you pointed out that it was Damon Whitaker. To add to that, he is Forest's brother (about 9 years younger). Forest himself has an uncredited role as a grown up Bobby Tidd.
My father was one of those "Rock And Roll is a message from the devil" types. My mum, on the other hand, was pretty cool for a 40s teenager. She was a big Elvis fan. But she had to listen to his music and watch movies when he wasn't around. I was her little surprise package. She was 44 when I was born. The youngest of 8 kids, 6 girls, 2 boys with 1 set of twins in the middle. No, we're not Catholic. Mum had problems with medication (they had an extra strong effect on her), and Dad refused to do anything. My eldest sister was 23. There was an 11 1/2 year age gap between the second youngest and I. He was the youngest of my brothers, and he loved having a baby sister. My two eldest sisters were married and having kids. I'm starting another comment.
One of my top guilty pleasures right here 🔵
I just clicked On this video so I haven't watched it yet. But someone beat me to it. I absolutely love this movie and wish there were more reactions on youtube. I think you're going to Adore it and appreciate it for what it is. As we get older I think this movie hits harder.
You were taking when she said, "Meet your son, Coltrane...."
Sadly, Glenne Headly, the wife, passed away in 2017! She was such a great actress and this movie was where I enjoyed it the most.
OK, I request a short trumpet solo!!!
As far as I remember the movie begins in 1965, and it ends in 1995. Great review.
Love this movie! Just such a great story!
Love this movie so much! It's on my top 10 list.
Fantastically emotional movie.
Please please please do fried green tomatoes before the end of the summer. It is another tearjerker. I mean it’s OK if if you don’t do it at the end of the summer too, but I would really like to see your reaction to it.
Beautiful movie and a great reaction.
James, I am thrilled to see that you are reacting to this highly underrated but most wonderful movie! Now, I’m gonna go watch your reaction❤️. So I’ve just finished watching our heartfelt reaction as I watched through tear filled eyes as you did also. Fantastic James!
You are a lovely man and no doubt a great dad.
You are so kind
One of my favourite movies!
Interesting tidbit about this movie....all the individuals that were portrayed as being deaf in the film are actually deaf in real life
What a wonderful movie
Saw this when it came out. A bit flawed, but as a Dreyfuss fan I loved it nevertheless and will never forget the scene where he sings Lennon's "Beautiful Boy" to his son in front of everybody. Also, nice surprise cameo by Julian Lennon (wrote Cole's Song).
Save for two years in high school, I was in band from 4th grade to the end of college. All of my band directors were different, but they all affected me. The one with the biggest impact, though, was my junior high director Mr. Kobe (pronounced Koh-bee). He was a real martinet, very strict and demanding. But, he produced one of the best bands in the entire damn state. We won competitions year after year in both symphonic and marching bands, and many of my fellow players did well in solo competitions. I wasn’t nearly as talented, but I always enjoyed the work and results. Kobe could scare the crap out of you, though. One day in practice, everyone was just too restless and screwing around. He finally just tossed his baton in the air, stepped off the podium, walked a few steps back to the table and chair set behind him and sat down, glaring at us all for a full five minutes. Within the first minute, we were dead silent and just waited for him. Finally, he stood up, grabbed his baton off the ground, got back on the podium, and said in a lethally quiet tone, “Now that I have your attention, let’s try that again.” We got back to work.
The actress who played Rowena, later played the wife of Admiral "Iceman" Kazansky, in "Top Gun: Maverick".
Such an hidden gem
Music of the Heart is a story of a woman who teaches music at a school after a divorce or death of her husband. She has a roomful of violins. Played by Meryl Streep.
Such a GREAT movie 🍿🥲🥰
Loved this movie❤
If you love this movie, I highly recommend music of the heart with Meryl Streep. Another phenomenal movie surrounding teachers and music. ❤ loved this reaction!
Oooh yes! One of my favorites of all time
I think an important timeline detail was the fact that they were changing the name of the school from Grant to JFK
I'm surprised you didn't recognize Olympia Dukakis (the principal) from "Steel Magnolias"!! 😉
Very good reaction and edit!
He reminds me of my high school band director who was a great teacher and made us believe in ourselves. Even looks like him a little bit.
Deafness can be progressive.
Love this movie ❤
14:18 drivers ed is hilarious 😅😂
An absolute favorite. 😢
This is one of my favorite movies with a musical theme. The others I like are:
The Buddy Holly Story
La Bamba
This Is Spinal Tap
Bohemian Rhapsody
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Take the Lead is a movie of a dance teacher who teaches ballroom dance to a special class of kids in New York. Has Antonio Banderas.
You will love "Deloris Clairborne" A Stephen king book
I really loved this movie when I saw it and it really good though it seems to have declined a bit in my mind over time.
The Rowena thing was a bit odd when I was young, but maybe ages a bit worse now. Thankfully nothing really happens and it's fairly innocent as these things go. (I think in that era there were shows and films that had High School teachers going way further than "chaste kiss on cheek" and sometimes sided with doing so.)
4:49 you know everyone. lol
Amazing movie ❤
16:39 that's putting it mildly 🤭
I don't think this movie needed the Rowena subplot. It's interesting how it's played as a temptation/marriage crisis story for the most part, when, while important, there are obviously a lot of other issues with it.