
Dead Poets Society
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.
- 8.3
- 1989
- Released
- 2h 9m

Robin Williams
John Keating
Robert Sean Leonard
Neil Perry
Ethan Hawke
Todd Anderson
Josh Charles
Knox Overstreet
Gale Hansen
Charlie Dalton
Dylan Kussman
Richard Cameron
Allelon Ruggiero
Steven Meeks
James Waterston
Gerard Pitts
Norman Lloyd
Mr. Nolan
Kurtwood Smith
Mr. Perry
Carla Belver
Mrs. Perry
Leon Pownall
McAllister
George Martin
Dr. Hager
Joe Aufiery
Chemistry Teacher
Matt Carey
Hopkins
Kevin Cooney
Joe Danburry
Jane Moore
Mrs. Danburry
Lara Flynn Boyle
Ginny Danburry
Colin Irving
Chet Danburry
Alexandra Powers
Chris Noel
Melora Walters
Gloria
Welker White
Tina
Steve Mathios
Steve
Alan Pottinger
Bubba
Pamela Burrell
Directing Teacher
Allison Hedges
Actor / Fairy
Christine D'Ercole
Titania
John Cunningham
Mr. Anderson
Debra Mooney
Mrs. Anderson
John Martin Bradley
Bagpiper
Charles Lord
Mr. Dalton
Kurt Leitner
Lester
Richard Stites
Stick
James J. Christy
Spaz
Catherine Soles
Stage Manager
Hoover Sutton
Welton Professor
James Donnell Quinn
Procession Alumnus
Ashton W. Richards
Phys. Ed. Teacher
Robert Gleason
Father of Spaz
Bill Rowe
Dormitory Porter
Robert J. Zigler III
Beans
Keith Snyder
Russell
Nicholas K. Gilhool
Shroom
Jonas Stiklorius
Jonas
Craig Johnson
Dewey
Chris Hull
Ace
Jason Woody
Woodsie
Sam Stegeman
Sam
Andrew Hill
Senior Student
Kate Kearney-Patch
Mother in Opening Scene (uncredited)




Released
en
$16,400,000.00
$235,860,116.00
- #individual
- #friendship
- #philosophy
- #poetry
- #literature
- #professor
- #based on true story
- #coming of age
- #teacher
- #school play
- #new england
- #vermont
- #schoolteacher
- #preparatory school
- #1950s
- #somber
- #playful
- #teenager
- #tense
- #tragic
Reviews
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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 repeated, inaccurately, as an invitation to live joyfully. And it makes us laugh and reflect even more t

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