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Dead Poets Society
Directed by
Peter Weir
PG
1989
2h 9m
Drama
,
Comedy
8.1
85%
92%
8.3
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Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
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Cast of Dead Poets Society
Robin Williams
John Keating
Robert Sean Leonard
Neil Perry
Ethan Hawke
Todd Anderson
Josh Charles
Knox Overstreet
Gale Hansen
Charlie Dalton
Dylan Kussman
Richard Cameron
Allelon Ruggiero
Steven Meeks
James Waterston
Gerard Pitts
Norman Lloyd
Mr. Nolan
Kurtwood Smith
Mr. 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
Alexandra Powers
Chris Noel
Dead Poets Society Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Kurt Jacobsen
We never are privy to Keatings's personal life, nor do we quite grasp why such a talented individual is devoted to pedagogy.
Epoch Times
Mark Jackson
I'd originally found it inspiring in 1989 but upon reviewing DPS in 2021, I've come to see it as the poster child (or movie poster) for the insidious, creeping way Hollywood helped sneak communism, Trojan-horse-wise, into America via the movies.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
Robin Williams may have been famous because of his comedy work but his non-comedy role in Dead Poets Society is one of his best performances.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
A refreshing if obvious drama.
New York Daily News
Hank Gallo
On the surface Robin Williams appears to be giving his standard performance as Prof. Keating - witty, sincere and lovable. But there's much more here.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
I can't help but melt underneath this movie: it chisels away the cynic and gets at the sap.
House Next Door
Odie Henderson
Dead Poets Society purports to be about the bravery of following one's own path. This is a bright, shining lie, one the film is ballsy enough to tell to your face.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's not so easy to dismiss Dead Poets Society. For all its faults, it still has as much power as it ever did.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
Williams keeps a stiff upper lip, showing a more sedate and sensitive side, and the Oscar-winning screenplay provides a strong backbone.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Falters when it goes for too much heart-tugging manipulation.
Common Sense Media
Randy White
Inspiring, intense story of a teacher and his students.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Williams, who has comparatively little screen time, has come to act, not to cut comic riffs, and he does so with forceful, ultimately compelling, simplicity.
BrianOrndorf.com
Brian Orndorf
A bundle of growing pain blues, flamboyant declarations of self, and doomsday faculty foul-ups, and it cooks when delivered in big batches of adolescent passion.
Screen It!
Rory L. Aronsky
Watch "Dead Poets Society" and you'll see the efforts of a filmmaker who has his own loving style in making movies.
Variety
Variety Staff
Story sings whenever Williams is onscreen. Screen belongs just as often to Leonard, who as Neil has a quality of darting confidence mixed with hesitancy. Hawke, as the painfully shy Todd, gives a haunting performance.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The moral divisions set up between characters are childishly overdrawn; and, worst of all, the behavior shown by the boys and adults frequently reeks of falsity and contrivance.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The movie undercuts Mr. Williams's exceptionally fine performance, making the character seem more of a dubious fool than is probably intended.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It's a literate though strained uplifter, a not altogether compatible coupleting of Rocky Balboa and the Bard.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Solid, smart entertainment.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not the worst of the countless recent movies about good kids and hidebound, authoritatian older people. It may, however, be the most shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.
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