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.
John Keating
Neil Perry
Todd Anderson
Knox Overstreet
Charlie Dalton
Richard Cameron
Steven Meeks
Gerard Pitts
Mr. Nolan
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. This is quite a task for the shy young "Todd" (easily the most effective performance of Ethan Hawke's career) and for aspiring actor "Neil" (a terrifically measured and sincere Robert Sean Leonard) w...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$16,400,000.00
Revenue $235,900,000.00