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3 days ago · As you explore this list, you'll find good new and classic movies that share a kinship with Dead Poets Society, such as The Outsiders, a compelling drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which unravels the tumultuous journey of adolescence against the backdrop of social class warfare.
4 days ago · Dead Poets Society celebrated its 35th anniversary this month. Peter Weir’s film follows a New England boarding school in the late 1950’s, where a group of students, inspired by their English teacher, fight against rigid tradition and strive to make their lives their own.
2 days ago · Lara Flynn Boyle thought the 1989 drama Dead Poets Society would be her big break, but instead, her scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. Making matters worse, Boyle, now 54, didn’t find out until she went to see the movie with her mother, Sally. The actress was, she tells PEOPLE, “just crushed.”
1 day ago · Dead Poets Society isn't an autobiographical story, though elements of the plot overlap with Tom's life. The screenwriter, just like the characters in his movie, went to an all-boys boarding school, where he was taught by an iconoclastic teacher, similar to the one famously played by the late, great Robin Williams.
5 days ago · The actor also reveals why he initially turned down the That '70s show sequel series. Kurtwood Smith on That ’90s Show Season 2 and Remembering Dead Poets Society: Podcast Consequence Staff
4 days ago · Maybe the most salient (and unfair) drumming the New Critics received was in the 1989 (mis)beloved Peter Weir film Dead Poets Society, featuring Robin Williams’s excellent portrayal of John Keating, an English teacher at elite Welton Academy in 1959.
3 days ago · Dead Poets Society. Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke. 100 votes. Dead Poets Society is an inspiring movie about a young actor, Neil Perry, and the English teacher who helps him find his life's purpose.
