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Dead Poets Society
Set in 1959, the movie centers on the struggle of John Keating, an unorthodox, energetic English teachers as he tries to inspires his students to discover their love for poetry and seize the day at a posh New England prep school.
26 April 1943, Wrexham, North Wales, UK
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
9 September 1967, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1945, Houston, Texas, USA
16 February 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 24, 2010
Beautifully directed and with an Oscar-winning story.
May 20, 2003
The movie undercuts Mr. Williams's exceptionally fine performance, making the character seem more of a dubious fool than is probably intended.
July 18, 2007
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.
January 02, 2011
Inspiring, intense story of a teacher and his students.
January 09, 2012
Williams keeps a stiff upper lip, showing a more sedate and sensitive side, and the Oscar-winning screenplay provides a strong backbone.
January 20, 2012
It's not so easy to dismiss Dead Poets Society. For all its faults, it still has as much power as it ever did.
August 24, 2010
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.
April 23, 2011
Falters when it goes for too much heart-tugging manipulation.
July 18, 2007
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.
January 26, 2006
Weir infuses the film with his customary mysticism, but more importantly, draws sensitive performances from his largely inexperienced cast.
June 01, 2016
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.
August 18, 2014
I can't help but melt underneath this movie: it chisels away the cynic and gets at the sap.