Title: What an awful film...
Product review: I had high hopes for this film based purely on my admiration of Richard Dreyfuss as an actor. What a disappointment. Dreyfuss is fine (though I don't think he deserved the Oscar nomination). The movie is treacle of the worst kind. I don't mind being manipulated by a film, but when that manipulation is so obvious, I just can't get past it. The harder they try to make me cry, the harder I resist. (Don't think I'm unfeeling; I bawled my eyes out at "Terms Of Endearment", "The Elephant Man" and many others). The whole subplot of the deaf son was unnecessary and there only to "tug at your heartstrings". Yuck. To make matters worse, Mr. Holland's "Opus" is awful and any true musician will tell you this. It's really bad. So's the movie.
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