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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

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• The song young Gertrude Lang learns on the clarinet is "Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk.
  
  
• An old cold storage building that was part of an abandoned fruit cannery in Gresham, Oregon was used for the construction of props (John F. Kennedy High School road sign) The interior and exterior of the apartment they lived in as well as the house seen later in the film. The apartment exterior was recreated after an actual building located in Portland, Or.
  
  
• Every person in the film that portrayed a deaf person is deaf in real life.
  
  

• As a child, Katee Sackhoff was a child extra in this film. She has stated that she hated the experience, but vowed to Richard Dreyfuss that she would work with him again. She ended up playing his daughter in the series "The Education of Max Bickford" (2001) six years later.
  
  
• Composer Michael Kamen was so inspired by the story told in this film that he started a non-profit organization dedicated to providing musical instruments to underprivileged students.
  
  

• SPOILER: The sign that Cole gives to Mr. Holland (his father) just before he conducts the symphony at the end of the film means "I love you".
  
  

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