Dead Poets Society
He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.
He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.
Drama
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1989
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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.
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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
128 min
Release date:
2 Jun 1989
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$16,400,000
Revenue:
$235,860,116
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 20 wins & 19 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
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.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
24 Aug 2010
fresh:
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.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
18 Jul 2007
rotten:
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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
18 Jul 2007
rotten:
The movie undercuts Mr. Williams's exceptionally fine performance, making the character seem more of a dubious fool than is probably intended.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
It's a literate though strained uplifter, a not altogether compatible coupleting of Rocky Balboa and the Bard.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000