Film · 1989 · Coming of age
Dead Poets Society
Directed by Peter Weir
1989
★ 6.0 editorial score
Nobody who saw it at the right age has stopped quoting it: Robin Williams plays a teacher who tells boys at a 1959 boarding school that poetry is worth risking something for.
“Renowned for his improvisational flights, Robin Williams' performance here is controlled — warm rather than wacky, stirring rather than wild. His facility at letting rip is used judiciously to marvellous effect in classroom scenes in which he soars: exhorting the boys to tear up their texts, circling a shy student to squeeze a poetic outburst from the startled boy, impersonating John Wayne playing Macbeth.”
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1989Depicts 1950s
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