Top billed cast

1. 

   Robin Williams

   John Keating

2. 

   Robert Sean Leonard

   Neil Perry

3. 

   Ethan Hawke

   Todd Anderson

4. 

   Josh Charles

   Knox Overstreet

5. 

   Gale Hansen

   Charlie Dalton

6. 

   Dylan Kussman

   Richard Cameron

7. 

   Allelon Ruggiero

   Steven Meeks

8. 

   James Waterston

   Gerard Pitts

9. 

   Norman Lloyd

   Mr. Nolan

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2019-07-08

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 Academy, an all-boys preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee. The film is set in 1959 at the fictional Welton Academy in Vermont (location shoot from St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware). The story follows that of English teacher John Keating who uses his different method of teaching to insp...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$16,400,000.00

Revenue
$235,860,116.00

Keywords

• individual
• friendship
• philosophy
• poetry
• literature
• professor
• based on true story
• coming of age
• teacher
• school play
• new england
• vermont
• schoolteacher
• preparatory school
• 1950s
• teenager