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Dead Poets Society is a american film of genre Drama directed by Peter Weir released in USA on 9 june 1989 with Robin Williams
Dead Poets Society (1989)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 june 1989
Length 2h8
Directed by Peter Weir
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Rating81%
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film written by Tom Schulman, directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams. Set at the conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in the Northeastern United States in 1959, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
The film received critical acclaim and box office success; it was also BAFTA's best film and best foreign film in France and Italy. Schulman received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work.
Synopsis
In 1959, shy Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) begins his senior year of high school at Welton Academy, an elite prep boarding school. He is assigned one of Welton's most promising students, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), as his roommate and is quickly accepted by Neil's friends: romantic Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), overachiever Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), best friends Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero) and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston), and mischievous beatnik Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen).Actors
Robin Williams
(John Keating)
Ethan Hawke
(Todd Anderson)
Robert Sean Leonard
(Neil Perry)
Josh Charles
(Knox Overstreet)
Gale Hansen
(Charlie Dalton)
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