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Dead Poets Society

Movie
1989
2h 8m
PG
English
Drama
User Score: 
8.3
Critic Score: 
82
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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.
Dead Poets Society Poster

Dead Poets Society

PG
Movie
1989
2h 8m
English
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.
Rating
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8.3
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Dead Poets Society (1989) on IMDb
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82

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Robin Williams
John Keating
Ethan Hawke
Todd Anderson
Gale Hansen
Charlie Dalton
Josh Charles
Knox Overstreet
Dylan Kussman
Richard Cameron
Allelon Ruggiero
Steven Meeks
James Waterston
Gerard Pitts
Norman Lloyd
Mr. Nolan
Kurtwood Smith
Mr. Tom Perry
Carla Belver
Mrs. Perry
Leon Pownall
McAllister
George Martin
Dr. Hager
Joe Aufiery
Chemistry Teacher
Matt Carey
Hopkins
Kevin Cooney
Joe Danburry
Jane Moore
Mrs. Danburry
Lara Flynn Boyle
Ginny Danburry
Colin Irving
Chet Danburry
Pamela Burrell
Directing Teacher
Directed By: Peter Weir
Written By: Tom Schulman

Featured Comments/Tips

rwn_98 says...
10 years ago
Oh Captain, My Captain! terrific film ..
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stormholder says...
10 years ago
This is the movie i was born to watch.
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swanqueenz says...
8 years ago
❞Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.❞
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AlexanderZ says...
7 years ago
There are certain films that get under your skin, never to come out. They change your life, subtly altering your perceptions of reality, almost always for the better. Dead Poets Society is one of those few films.
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Featured User Reviews

AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  7 years ago
[8.3/5] Youth is a magnifying glass. It heightens everything, at a time when you have less control over yourself or experience to know how to deal with that. Adolescence in particular is a fraught time in almost anyone’s life, where the emotions a person experiences as a child become so much stron More
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
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 no More
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John Chard
5 years ago
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 Aca More
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Wuchak
3 years ago
_**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 s More
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