Dead Poets Society
by Peter Weir
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Actor: Ethan Hawke, Gale Hansen, Josh Charles, Robert Sean Leonard, Robin WilliamsDirector: Peter Weir
Cinematographer: John Seale
Editor: William M. Anderson
Producer: Duncan Henderson
Producer: Paul Junger Witt
Producer: Steven Haft
Producer: Tony Thomas
Writer: Tom Schulman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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Movie Review: O Captain! My Captain!
Summary: 5 Stars
These simple words are the catalyst in Dead Poets Society that changes the lives of a group of boys forever.
This movie takes place in 1959 at an all boys private school that teaches its students in a traditional manner. It is seeped with long standing traditions and therefore isn't perceptive to change. Consequentially when a new contemporary person, Mr. Keating, replaces an English teacher who retired, things are bound to get interesting.
John Keating is an English teacher who has no regard for restrictions against expression and so called "mathematical equations" that define a poem's greatness. He throws this all away in favor of independent thought and nonconformist ways. Mr. Keating has a passion for life that he tries to pass on to his students using radical teaching methods to teach important life lessons such as carpe diem.
Carpe diem, or seize the day, is a major theme in Dead Poets Society, and some may call it the cause of most of the conflicts that arise. It encourages a group of boys to break many school rules to form the forbidden Dead Poet's Society and secretly meet. It also causes Neil Perry, one of Mr. Keating's students, to follow his dream of acting against his parents' will, which inevitably results in a calamity.
I highly recommend Dead Poets Society because its something anyone can relate to and enjoy. It mixes a variety of genres to produces a spellbinding movie that makes you understand the reasons why and why not people "seize the day" and the consequences of their actions.
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In this emotionally uplifting drama a dedicated teacher gives his students the gift of inspiration. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/11/2007 Starring: Robin Williams Run time: 128 minutes Rating: PgRobin Williams stars as an English teacher who doesn't fit into the conservative prep school where he teaches, but whose charisma and love of poetry inspires several boys to revive a secret society with a bohemian bent. The script is well meaning but a little trite, though director Peter Weir (The Truman Show) adds layers of emotional depth in scenes of conflict between the kids and adults. (A subplot involving one father's terrible pressure on his son--played by Robert Sean Leonard--to drop his interest in theater reaches heartbreaking proportions.) Williams is given plenty of latitude to work in his brand of improvisational humor, though it is all well-woven into his character's style of instruction. --Tom Keogh
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