Continuity mistake: When Glen Holland hears that John Lennon was killed, he is sitting at his piano and outside the window it is sunny and leaves are on the trees. As he walks home, it is overcast, snow is on the ground, and the leaves are off the trees. Since Lennon was killed in December of 1980, the latter "weather" would be correct.
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas
The school board cuts all arts funding to the school, leading Mr. Holland to be unceremoniously fired after thirty years of teaching. On his last day, many of his previous students throw a celebration of his time at the school. In the end, Mr. Holland has the assembled orchestra play his opus.
Mark Ivey
More mistakes in Mr. Holland's Opus
Vice Principal Wolters: Have you been to any of the football games this season, Mr. Holland?
Glenn Holland: I can't say that I have, no.
Vice Principal Wolters: Well, Mrs. Jacobs and I feel that there's something missing.
Glenn Holland: Touchdowns.
Trivia: All the American Sign Language used in the movie is accurate. When Iris tells Cole to open the window, Cole's response is not translated and she says "don't bust my butt." What he signed was, "Tell him to open the window himself."
Question: Sometime during the film the show the passing of several years by showing images of what happened during these years. I think it is at the time of the Vietnam War. A song is played in the background. Does anybody know what the name of that song is and whom by?
Answer: Its "Imagine" by John Lennon.