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Dead Poets Society

1989

Peter Weir

Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles ...

7.6

118,670

Drama Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Not the worst of the countless recent movies about good kids and hidebound, authoritatian older people. It may, however, be the most shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Variety	"Peter Weir fills the screen with a fresh gang of compelling teenagers (...) Story sings whenever Williams is onscreen"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"I wish Robin Williams had been my English teacher (...) A solid, smart entertainment will"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Although John Keating is the most vivid, most complex character in it, he is not around long enough (...) [It] moves with such deliberate predictability that one must walk very slowly not to walk ahead of it."	NEU
United States	Kendall Myers Collider	"Robin Williams' timeless lessons still hit home (...) 'Oh Captain! My Captain!' still strikes a chord, over 30 years later"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	Weir infuses the film with his customary mysticism (...) Williams does wonders with a role that tends to be reduced to one of catalyst"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"The young actors (...) are all extraordinary, and Weir and cinematographer John Seale imbue the campus and its environs with the feel of an old myth"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The major problem with this 1989 male weepie is Tom Schulman's script, which falters on several counts (...) Sometimes Weir's directorial craft makes one overlook some of the wobbles of this teetering vehicle"	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"Beautifully directed and with an Oscar-winning story, 'Dead Poets' is an often overlooked screen gem (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Many people cried at the screening I attended. I sniffled, too. For the movie that might have been."	NEU
United Kingdom	Martin Chilton Telegraph	"Robin Williams is superb (...) [Weir] obtains some fine performances from the younger actors (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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