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Dead Poets Society

Genres
Drama
Rating
8.3
Status
Released
PG
Release Date1989-06-02
Runtime129 min
LanguagesEnglishLatin
CountriesUnited States of America
Budget$16,400,000
Revenue$235,860,116
IMDbView on IMDb

Overview

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.

Keywords
individual
friendship
philosophy
poetry
literature
professor
based on true story
coming of age
teacher
school play
new england
vermont
schoolteacher
preparatory school
1950s
teenager

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Cast & Crew

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Robin Williams

as John Keating

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Robert Sean Leonard

as Neil Perry

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Ethan Hawke

as Todd Anderson

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Josh Charles

as Knox Overstreet

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Gale Hansen

as Charlie Dalton

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Dylan Kussman

as Richard Cameron

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Allelon Ruggiero

as Steven Meeks

poster

James Waterston

as Gerard Pitts

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Norman Lloyd

as Mr. Nolan

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Kurtwood Smith

as Mr. Perry

Reviews

5
J

John Chard

Jul 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,…

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Wuchak

Jul 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 explo…

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