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Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society

1989 129 min ★ 8.3 Drama

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

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Cast

Robin Williams

Robin Williams

John Keating

Robert Sean Leonard

Robert Sean Leonard

Neil Perry

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke

Todd Anderson

Josh Charles

Josh Charles

Knox Overstreet

Gale Hansen

Gale Hansen

Charlie Dalton

Dylan Kussman

Dylan Kussman

Richard Cameron

Allelon Ruggiero

Allelon Ruggiero

Steven Meeks

James Waterston

James Waterston

Gerard Pitts

Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd

Mr. Nolan

Kurtwood Smith

Kurtwood Smith

Mr. Perry

Details

Director

Peter Weir

Tagline

"He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$16,400,000

Revenue

$235,860,116

Production

A Steven Haft Production, Witt/Thomas Productions, Silver Screen Partners IV, Touchstone Pictures

Reviews

J

John Chard

July 8, 2019

★ 9/10

Carpe Diem & The Punk Rock Movie. Dead Poets Society is directed by Peter Weir (Picnic At Hanging Rock/Gallipoli) and stars Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Kurtwood Smith, Gale Hansen & Norman Lloyd. The script is written by Tom Schulman, based on his life at Montgomery Bell Academy, an all-boys preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee. The film is set in 1959 at the fiction...

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Wuchak

July 9, 2021

★ 10/10

_**Seize the day; be Exceptional!**_ John Keating (Robin Williams), a new teacher at a stuffy prep school in 1959, inspires his students to capitalize on their natural talents and develop a passion for life because they only have one shot and in 60 years or so they'll all be worm-food. Each boy starts to act on Keating's dynamic ideas with explosive consequences , both good and bad. Released...

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CinemaSerf

July 3, 2022

★ 7/10

Robin Williams ("Keating") arrives at an all boys school where he is to teach them English. As you'd expect, they weren't particularly interested, but when he begins by telling them to rip up the poetry manual, and continues with an inspirational and vocational approach the pupils start to engage not only with him, but they set up the eponymous club which helps each of them to develop as a person....

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crazyrobinhood

September 29, 2024

★ 1/10

The (very absurd) point of view of the rich people about freedom. The Movie is so pathetically formulaic that it makes you want to throw tomatoes at the screen. The Horatian ideal, of Stoic-Epicurean origin, of a life enjoyed in the good it gives us, even if it is little, is here often repeated, inaccurately, as an invitation to live joyfully. And it makes us laugh and reflect even more t...

K

kevin2019

November 8, 2024

★ 8/10

"Dead Poets Society" never endeavours to sweeten the bitter pill of disappointment or tragedy by playing to whatever cliched expectations you might have. Neil's father Mr. Perry isn't going to suddenly relent and admit what a stupid and selfish fool he has been and then decide to change his uncompromising viewpoint in relation to his son's disputed future. He actually becomes even more entrenched ...

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