Synopsis for
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

Glenn Holland takes a job as a music teacher in order to have "free time" to compose. Getting involved with education was not something he had kept in mind when he accepted to teach Music Appreciation in a High School. Iris, the wife, and later the principal must keep pushing to get him really compromised to deal with the teenagers lack of interest in the music class. He learns he has the ability to spark passion for music when he explains that music "has to be fun" and come from inside to one of his students, unable to play properly the clarinet, she gets connected. Iris is pregnant and he feels the responsibilities as an additional obstacle to his plans as a composer. He discovers a talented student with great facilities to sing, and encourages her to go for her dream of being a professional singer. Glenn names "Rowena's theme" his composition for her; she decides to go to New York right away because "it is now or never". She proposes he goes with her so he meets her on the bus station the night of her departure...