Dead Poets Society
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"Dead Poets Society" is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir about students at a prestigious boarding school and their inspirational English teacher. The film explores themes of individualism, seizing opportunities, and the conflict between personal passion and parental expectations.
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8.3At 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.
Released: 1989-06-02129 minDir: Peter WeirDrama
Cast
- Robin Williams as John Keating
- Robert Sean Leonard as Neil Perry
- Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson
- Josh Charles as Knox Overstreet
- Gale Hansen as Charlie Dalton
- Dylan Kussman as Richard Cameron
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- Published
- 25 January 1990
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Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy. It tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
Dead Poets Society was produced by Touchstone Pictures and Silver Screen Partners IV and released in the United States by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution on June 2, 1989. The film was a commercial success and received critical acclaim. It grossed $235.9 million worldwide against a $16.4 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1989. The film received numerous accolades, including Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director and a Best Actor nomination for Williams. Schulman received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, the César Award for Best Foreign Film and the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film.