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Robin Williams stars as John Keating, a former student of the school he now teaches at, Welton Academy. It touches on so many life moments, love, death, frustration and ultimately understanding, that you cannot help but be moved (even a little) by WeirвЂ™s enormously competent, hypnotic direction. Poets is a singularly inclusive film вЂ“ teenagers and young adults will recognize the angst and puberty blue melancholy of that period of a young life, while adults will reminisce about how easy or hard they had it themselves by comparison вЂ“ thereвЂ™s something for everyone in this film. Yeah, thereвЂ™s lots of standing on desks in this movie.Дead Poets Society came out while I was still in high school I was roughly a similar age to the boys portrayed within the film itself, a factor which led to perhaps a closer affinity to their plight and emotional trajectories than I might have had otherwise. Weir was again nominated for a Directing Oscar for his work here (a note: including Dead Poets Society, Weir has been nominated four times, and never won!) and the film deserved its Screenplay gong Dead Poets Society remains popular probably less for Williams inclusion and more for the life affirming tone it takes showing us these young boysвЂ™ trials and tribulations. Throw in a dose of teen rebellion against the parents, an unrequited infatuation, and the gradual realization that life is for living, not conforming, and you have the recipe for what is a quietly moving, utterly beautiful, period film that delivers what it promises. It must be said, though, that while WilliamsвЂ™ name is above the title (and quite predominant in the promotional material, the film isnвЂ™t really about him per se instead, Dead Poets Society focused a lot of its time on the cadre of classmates and their gradual refusal to conform to what we perceive as a rather strict, inflexible educational regime. Set within the walls of a prestigious all-boys school in the 1950вЂ™s, the film contrasts the rigidity and conformity of the upper class society, and the вЂњgo where your heart leads youвЂќ enthusiasm for life personified by youthful and enthusiastic poetry teacher, John Keating. The blogger weвЂ™ll be tagging you can find at the bottom of this review! Thanks to Nick from The CK for nominating this film for me!!ДЄustralian director Peter Weir had come off the success of Witness and The Mosquito Coast before he wrangled Robin Williams in 1989вЂ™s coming-of-age drama, Dead Poets Society.

Dead poets society cast movie#

This review is part of the Your Face! Movie Tag Blogathon. The screenplay rightly won an Oscar, and definitely warranted itsВ Best Picture nom ( Driving Miss Daisy eventually wonвЂ¦) Dead Poets Society is a terrific, well acted, wonderful movie. What we think : Involving, lyrical, poetic film about young boys becoming men, and that awkward transitional stage of puberty, sees Robin Williams give a relatively (for him) restrained performance around a terrific ensemble of young actors вЂ“ among them, Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard вЂ“ in what is, in my mind, one of Peter WeirвЂ™s best films. Synopsis: A new and exuberant poetry teachers at a prestigious all-boys school brings out the best and worst in his young pupils. Major Award Wins : 1990 Academy Awards: Best Screenplay BAFTA 1989: Best Film, Best Original Film Score (Maurice Jarre) Principal Cast : Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Kurtwood Smith, Norman Lloyd, Dylan Kussman, James Waterson, Allalon Ruggerio, Welker White.