Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy, and tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
Plot
In 1959, Todd Anderson begins his junior year of high school at Welton Academy, an Episcopalian all-male preparatory boarding school in Vermont. Assigned one of Welton's most promising students, senior Neil Perry, as his roommate, he meets Neil's friends: Knox Overstreet, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts and Charlie Dalton.
Awards
Cast
- Alexandra Powers
- Allelon Ruggiero
- Colin Irving
- Debra Mooney
- Dylan Kussman
- Ethan Hawke
- Gale Hansen
- George Martin
- James Waterston
- Jamie Kennedy
- Jane Moore
- John Cunningham
- Josh Charles
- Kevin Cooney
- Kurtwood Smith
- Lara Flynn Boyle
- Leon Pownall
- Melora Walters
- Norman Lloyd
- Robert Sean Leonard
- Robin Williams
- Welker White