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Dead Poets Society

  • 8.1 /10

  • 11072

  • 84%

Plot

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.

Cast

Robin Williams as John Keating
Robin Williams

as John Keating

Robert Sean Leonard as Neil Perry
Robert Sean Leonard

as Neil Perry

Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson
Ethan Hawke

as Todd Anderson

Josh Charles as Knox Overstreet
Josh Charles

as Knox Overstreet

Gale Hansen as Charlie Dalton
Gale Hansen

as Charlie Dalton

Dylan Kussman as Richard Cameron
Dylan Kussman

as Richard Cameron

Allelon Ruggiero as Steven Meeks
Allelon Ruggiero

as Steven Meeks

James Waterston as Gerard Pitts
James Waterston

as Gerard Pitts

Norman Lloyd as Mr. Nolan
Norman Lloyd

as Mr. Nolan

Kurtwood Smith as Mr. Perry
Kurtwood Smith

as Mr. Perry

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • June 2, 1989

Production Companies

  • A Steven Haft Production

  • Witt/Thomas Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Latin

Budget

  • $16,400,000.00

Revenue

  • $235,900,000.00

Runtime

  • 2.13 hrs

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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 fictio…

_**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. Release…

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…