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Dead Poets Society (1989)

PG06/02/1989Drama2h 8m
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He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.

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.

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    Robin Williams

    John Keating

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    Robert Sean Leonard

    Neil Perry

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    Ethan Hawke

    Todd Anderson

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    Josh Charles

    Knox Overstreet

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    Gale Hansen

    Charlie Dalton

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    Dylan Kussman

    Richard Cameron

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    Allelon Ruggiero

    Steven Meeks

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    James Waterston

    Gerard Pitts

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    Norman Lloyd

    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...