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Dead Poets Society

8.3

Released June 02, 1989Runtime 2h 9min

He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

A Steven Haft Production

Witt/Thomas Productions

Silver Screen Partners IV

Touchstone Pictures

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $16,400,000
Revenue: $235,860,116
Profit/Loss: $219,460,116

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Cast

Robin WilliamsJohn Keating

Robert Sean LeonardNeil Perry

Ethan HawkeTodd Anderson

Josh CharlesKnox Overstreet

Gale HansenCharlie Dalton

Dylan KussmanRichard Cameron

Allelon RuggieroSteven Meeks

James WaterstonGerard Pitts

Norman LloydMr. Nolan

Kurtwood SmithMr. Perry

Carla BelverMrs. Perry

Leon PownallMcAllister

George MartinDr. Hager

Joe AufieryChemistry Teacher

Matt CareyHopkins

Kevin CooneyJoe Danburry

Jane MooreMrs. Danburry

Lara Flynn BoyleGinny Danburry

Colin IrvingChet Danburry

Alexandra PowersChris Noel

Melora WaltersGloria

Welker WhiteTina

Steve MathiosSteve

Alan PottingerBubba

Pamela BurrellDirecting Teacher

Allison HedgesActor / Fairy

Christine D'ErcoleTitania

John CunninghamMr. Anderson

Debra MooneyMrs. Anderson

John Martin BradleyBagpiper

Charles LordMr. Dalton

Kurt LeitnerLester

Richard StitesStick

James J. ChristySpaz

Catherine SolesStage Manager

Hoover SuttonWelton Professor

James Donnell QuinnProcession Alumnus

Simon MeinWelton Vicar

Ashton W. RichardsPhys. Ed. Teacher

Robert GleasonFather of Spaz

Bill RoweDormitory Porter

Robert J. Zigler IIIBeans

Keith SnyderRussell

Nicholas K. GilhoolShroom

Jonas StikloriusJonas

Craig JohnsonDewey

Chris HullAce

Jason WoodyWoodsie

Sam StegemanSam

Andrew HillSenior Student

Kate Kearney-PatchMother in Opening Scene (uncredited)

Crew

Peter WeirDirector

Alan B. CurtissFirst Assistant Director

John RuskSecond Second Assistant Director

Brian FongSecond Second Assistant Director

Tom SeidmanSecond Assistant Director

Tom SchulmanWriter

Steven HaftProducer

Paul Junger WittProducer

Tony ThomasProducer

Howard FeuerCasting

Duncan HendersonAssociate Producer

Duncan HendersonUnit Production Manager

John SealeDirector of Photography

Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer

William M. AndersonEditor

Wendy StitesProduction Design

Eddie MarksCostume Supervisor

Marilyn MatthewsSet Costumer

Anthony J. ScaranoSet Costumer

C.J. AppelSupervising ADR Editor

Gloria D'AlessandroDialogue Editor

Carlos DelariosSound Re-Recording Mixer

Michael J. KohutSound Re-Recording Mixer

Ann KroeberSound Effects Editor

Aaron RochinSound Re-Recording Mixer

Robert ShoupFoley Editor

Robert ShoupSound Effects Editor

Alan SpletSupervising Sound Editor

John VerbeckSound Effects Editor

Sandy VenezianoArt Direction

John H. AndersonSet Decoration

Nancy KonrardyCostume Design

Susan A. CabralMakeup Artist

Bette IversonHairstylist

Nigel A. BoucherLeadman

Mike CarrilloAssistant Property Master

Stan CockerellAssistant Property Master

Albert B. Cooper IVCarpenter

Dale CoveyGreensman

Cal DiValerioConstruction Coordinator

Louis S. FlemingProperty Master

George FoucheConstruction Foreman

Hank GiardinaStandby Painter

Charles R. LipscombLeadman

Louis M. MannAssistant Art Director

Charleton E. ReynoldsSet Designer

Dee MangesMakeup Artist

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Reviews

Carpe Diem & The Punk Rock Movie. Dead Poets Society is directed by Peter Weir (Picnic At Hanging Rock/Gallipoli) and stars Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Kurtwood Smith, Gale Hansen & Norman Lloyd. The script is written by Tom Schulman, based on his life at Montgomery Bell Ac...

_**Seize the day; be Exceptional!**_ John Keating (Robin Williams), a new teacher at a stuffy prep school in 1959, inspires his students to capitalize on their natural talents and develop a passion for life because they only have one shot and in 60 years or so they'll all be worm-food. Each boy ...

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 n...

by crazyrobinhood

The (very absurd) point of view of the rich people about freedom. The Movie is so pathetically formulaic that it makes you want to throw tomatoes at the screen. The Horatian ideal, of Stoic-Epicurean origin, of a life enjoyed in the good it gives us, even if it is little, is here often repeat...

"Dead Poets Society" never endeavours to sweeten the bitter pill of disappointment or tragedy by playing to whatever cliched expectations you might have. Neil's father Mr. Perry isn't going to suddenly relent and admit what a stupid and selfish fool he has been and then decide to change his uncompr...