John Keating (Robin Williams) kneeling in front of his sitting students and looking ahead to the right with an awed expression at a student, who is offscreen, in Dead Poets Society
The Big Picture Released in 1989, the critically acclaimed Dead Poets Society ingrained itself into pop culture memory. Its success helped launch the careers of then-newcomers Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Josh Charles, earned Robin Williams his second of four Academy Award nominations, and won writer Tom Schulman an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The latter fact is especially appropriate since Society celebrates the power of the written word.
Release Date June 2, 1989 Director Peter Weir Cast Robin Williams , Robert Sean Leonard , Ethan Hawke , Josh Charles , Gale Hansen , Dylan Kussman Runtime 128 Main Genre Drama Writers Tom Schulman Tagline He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.
"I had an antic sophomore English teacher, who was charming, and he loved his students, but he was an iconoclast. When we came back for our junior year, he wasn’t there anymore. Rumors spread that he had an affair with the headmaster’s daughter and the headmaster’s wife, but we were all too scared to ask what really happened. Had we done so, we would have learned that he simply got a better job.
Related This Now-Iconic Actor Has Robin Williams to Thank for His Career Although this actor was convinced Williams hated him on set. Good comedy infuses people with joy. Hopefully, it also makes them think. Williams's comedic training suits Keating's underhanded gentleness. When he impersonates how John Wayne and Marlon Brando would recite William Shakespeare, the goofy mannerisms let his students connect with the Bard's ancient words for the first time.
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