Dead Poets Society 1989

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 123 min

genre: drama

theme: high school

director: Peter Weir

Score: 8 / 10

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. Todd is assigned one of Welton's top students, junior Neil Perry, as his roommate, and through Neil, he meets his friends: Knox Overstreet, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts, and Charlie Dalton.

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author	Tom Schulman
award	Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay BAFTA Award for Best Film BAFTA Award for Best Original Music César Award for Best Foreign Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Welton Academy
director	Peter Weir
editor	William M. Anderson
genre	drama
keywords	a midsummer night\'s dream act all-male belong boarding school cambridge carpe diem date english class english literature english teacher episcopal church episcopalian expel harvard harvard university learn make up medical school military school o captain! my captain! open paddle preparatory public school puck question rat school newspaper single-sex education teach that girl university of cambridge university-preparatory school vermont walk warn
musicBy	Maurice Jarre
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role BAFTA Award for Best Direction BAFTA Award for Best Editing BAFTA Award for Best Film BAFTA Award for Best Original Music BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay César Award for Best Foreign Film David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
producer	Paul Junger Witt Steven Haft Tony Thomas
productionCompany	Silver Screen Partners IV Touchstone Pictures
publisher	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
recordedAt	Delaware
theme	high school teen drama