The Movie: Wow, what a tearjerking ending this movie had! Not that a manly man like me would ever actually cry in a movie or anything like that. Richard Dreyfuss gave an Oscar nominated performance as Mr. Holland -- a musician and composer who reluctantly decides to go into teaching high school, thinking it would give him more time to compose his own music, only to find that more than anything, it keeps him from being able to do his own music. But he soon finds out that teaching is what he truly loves.

This movie spans Mr. Holland's 30 year teaching career from 1965 to 1995, following through a number of stages of his life (from newlywed to old man), through different stages of our country's growth. It's interesting, engaging, and like I said, the ending is a real tearjerker. Definitely check it out!

The DVD: Ah, the dreaded letterboxed non-anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer... ugh. And boy was this a pretty bad one -- the entire picture seemed to ring with excessive edge enhancement, and you could almost say that the whole movie was one gigantic compression artifact. Yuck. Audio, though clean, was unspectacular, and the only special feature is a promotional featurette on the movie. The end.