Cast
- Richard Dreyfuss as Glenn Holland
- Glenne Headly as Iris Holland
- Jay Thomas as Bill Meister
- Olympia Dukakis as Principal Helen Jacobs
- William H. Macy as Vice Principal (later Principal) Gene Wolters
- Alicia Witt as Gertrude Lang
- Terrence Howard as Louis Russ
- Damon Whitaker as Bobby Tidd
- Jean Louisa Kelly as Rowena Morgan
- Alexandra Boyd as Sarah Olmstead
- Nicholas John Renner as Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 6)
- Joseph Anderson as Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 15)
- Anthony Natale as Coltrane "Cole" Holland (age 28)
- Joanna Gleason as Governor Gertrude Lang
- Beth Maitland as Deaf School Principal
- Balthazar Getty as Stadler
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