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Mr. Holland's Opus

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Opus quality, uptight principal, coach hypothesis, budget/farewell choices, Rowena’s future and Cole’s name debated.

In the discussion (7)
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  • Is final opus good? Wacky guitar/music-teacher ambition and triumphant-but-cheesy Disney ride sound;Soren California preferred to world version aside.
  • Principal Walters more uptight than Little Bill because latter works on porn sets;Boogie Nights script-reading joke.
  • Coach secretly gay hypothesis opposed by different women evidence and lack of prior thought;modern dance/service/era cues speculative only.
  • Would restored program ending improve film? Governor could provide budget,Portland music cuts doubted.
  • Why invite firing principal and why would he attend final goodbye?
  • Rowena absent from finale;wife excluded her imagined,New York success/failure unknown and possible followup movie.
  • Coltrane Gershwin Holland name criticized;imagined drive-home Rowena argument with all-black cast button,Sam Jackson and Regina King preferred to Megan Good.