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Many viewers find the film deeply inspiring and moving. [1][2][3] Some critics argue the film is formulaic or promotes a toxic message. [4][5][6] Robin Williams' performance and the cast are widely praised. [7][8][9]
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The (very absurd) point of view of the rich people about freedom. The Movie is so pathetically formulaic that it makes you want to throw tomatoes at the screen. The Horatian ideal, of Stoic-Epicurean origin, of a life enjoyed in the good it gives us, even if it is little, is here often repeated, inaccurately, as an invitation to live joyfully. And it makes us laugh and reflect even more that it is observed from an …
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Carpe Diem & The Punk Rock Movie. Dead Poets Society is directed by Peter Weir (Picnic At Hanging Rock/Gallipoli) and stars Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Kurtwood Smith, Gale Hansen & Norman Lloyd. The script is written by Tom Schulman, based on his life at Montgomery Bell Academy, an all-boys preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee. The film is set in 1959 at the fictional Welton Academy in …
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Seize the day; be Exceptional! John Keating (Robin Williams), a new teacher at a stuffy prep school in 1959, inspires his students to capitalize on their natural talents and develop a passion for life because they only have one shot and in 60 years or so they'll all be worm-food. Each boy starts to act on Keating's dynamic ideas with explosive consequences , both good and bad. Released in 1989 and directed by Peter …
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Robin Williams ("Keating") arrives at an all boys school where he is to teach them English. As you'd expect, they weren't particularly interested, but when he begins by telling them to rip up the poetry manual, and continues with an inspirational and vocational approach the pupils start to engage not only with him, but they set up the eponymous club which helps each of them to develop as a person. This is quite a …
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"Dead Poets Society" never endeavours to sweeten the bitter pill of disappointment or tragedy by playing to whatever cliched expectations you might have. Neil's father Mr. Perry isn't going to suddenly relent and admit what a stupid and selfish fool he has been and then decide to change his uncompromising viewpoint in relation to his son's disputed future. He actually becomes even more entrenched in his stubborn …
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Critics, per Wikipedia
Dead Poets Society received mixed reviews from critics upon its release. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Dead Poets Society holds an approval rating of 85% based on 66 reviews, with an average score of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Affecting performances from the young cast and a genuinely inspirational turn from Robin Williams grant Peter Weir's prep school drama top honors." On Metacritic, the film received a score of 79 based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade on a scale of A+ to F. The Washington Post's reviewer called it "solid, smart entertainment", and praised Robin…
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60 of 168 · most liked first"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Dead Poets Society was released #OTD in 1989. What a great film, and what a brilliant performance by Robin Williams ❤️ #Filmsky #Moviesky #ComingOfAge #ClassicMovies 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →In the winter of 1988, on a break from shooting DEAD POETS SOCIETY, seven of the young actors from the film traveled into New York City, 5 of them auditioning for the same role in the Jack Lemmon film DAD. The other two brought a video camera. I live for this stuff.
neutral · AI labelView post →What's some objectively minor hill you had committed to die on in the Before Times that you'll still die in defense of, dammit? e.g., Dead Poets Society is a terrible movie to begin with and a deeply toxically terrible movie about teaching.
negative · AI labelView post →🌿☕ Jane Goodall RIP 🙏 Gorilla's In the Mist, the second film that made me cry. The first being Dead Poets Society. She will always be remembered - a truly incredible scientist 🐵 BBC News - Dame Jane Goodall remembered as a 'true hero for the planet' www.bbc.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →MATT DAMON — 56 Candles 🎂 today — talks about auditioning for DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) not getting the part & spending the entire summer working in his hometown Movie theatre as an usher tearing tickets & watching people come out crying so moved by the movie were they.
neutral · AI labelView post →A detail worth noting: DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) was the first Touchstone Pictures film to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards.
neutral · AI labelView post →The film opinion most likely to get me tarred and feathered is that Shawshank Redemption & Dead Poets Society are… fine but sort of treacly mediocre movies that are just inexplicably vastly overrated.
negative · AI labelView post →The Disney-churn Marvell/Star Wars slop has ruined the film industry. No one is willing to risk a thing on original IP when remakes/reboots/continuations are taking in the bank. We will never see another Stranger Than Fiction, or Dead Poets Society or, Eternal Sunshine while the low hanging fruit is such a hot commodity. And it will never not be a hot commodity.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kelsea Ballerini reading Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman on a park bench on her insta stories This book came out 7/4/1855 Referenced in Dead Poets Society and Lana's short film Tropico which was released 12/4/13 & 12/5/13 Just thought this was interesting
neutral · AI labelView post →Kurtwood Smith's performance in "Dead Poets' Society" always gave me chills. Just an amazing performance as Neal's father.
neutral · AI labelView post →MATT DAMON talks about auditioning for DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) not getting the part & spending the entire summer working in his hometown Movie theatre as an usher tearing tickets & watching people come out crying so moved by the movie were they.
neutral · AI labelView post →The (young) Cast of DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) talk about making the Film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to the @blankcheck.bsky.social ep on Dead Poets Society and they talk about what boarding school does to some people. College friend went to the school they filmed the movie at and I could never really party with his friends from there because they did drugs on a completely different level
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18? Dead Poets Society (1989)
neutral · AI labelView post →Now it's time for another Enterprise movie night with Phlox. Now Showing: Dead Poets Society (1989) #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekEnterprise
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989). Director: Peter Weir. Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke. Rewatching Weir's crowd-pleaser. Formulaic, yet still effective. 4 Oscar noms, including Best Pic & Williams. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Filmsky 7/21: Favorite Robin Williams movie(s) It's a draw! I'll be taking no questions.😜 "Dead Poets Society (1989) and "Awakenings" (1990)
positive · AI labelView post →Depressing number of people saying Dead Poets Society, which is a terrible, evil film. Correct answer is The Fisher King.
negative · AI labelView post →Dead Poets Society is the worst movie ever made.
negative · AI labelView post →MATT DAMON talks about auditioning for DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) not getting the part & spending the entire summer working in his hometown Movie theatre as an usher tearing tickets & watching people come out crying so moved by the movie were they.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky 7/21. Favorite Robin Williams Movie. Dead Poets Society (1989)
positive · AI labelView post →Disney History 7/21/1951 Happy Birthday to the voice of the Genie, Robin Williams. Some other Disney film credits include: •Aladdin •Popeye •Good Morning, Vietnam •Jack •Dead Poets Society •Aladdin and the King of Thieves •Flubber •Good Will Hunting l •Bicentennial Man •Old Dogs
neutral · AI labelView post →Out this week in UHD, the BFI re-release Peter Weir's classic The Cars That Ate Paris, a jumping off point for Mad Max and an early work by the great Australian cinematic talent who made Fearless, Witness and Dead Poets Society, the great Peter Weir. 4 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/05/26/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →> We will never see another Stranger Than Fiction, or Dead Poets Society or, Eternal Sunshine Original movies like that are still being made, much much more than ever before. Just not in Hollywood. And you won't get a trailer for those movies fed to you by Youtube's algorithm, you have to look for them yourself. My recent favorites were Flow and The Outrun (both from 2024). Edit: Using this comment to plug one of my favorite original movies of all time: [The Guard…
neutral · AI labelView post →the first 45 minutes of Dead Poets Society. I've seen the first 45 minutes of that movie a half dozen times or so. never seen the rest of it. as far as I know it's a feel good coming of age movie about boys discovering reading and friendship.
neutral · AI labelView post →my flight movie list: She’s the Man ✅ Crossroads Dead Poets Society John Tucker Must die Legally blonde 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching "Dead Poets Society" now. I love this movie. It's so poignant and powerful.
positive · AI labelView post →Today, Movie is done with "Dead Poets Society"- www.tumblr.com/askmovieslat... #Webcomic #Pony #MLPOC #unicorn
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav Robin Williams film. Dead Poets Society
neutral · AI labelView post →Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film. Night of the Living Dead Poets Society
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18... In a year that featured Batman, Back to the Future Part II, Look Who's Talking, Dead Poets Society, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Ghostbusters, The Little Mermaid and Born on the Fourth of July, I'm going for this...
positive · AI labelView post →I'm having a Peter Weir rewatch before hosting a screening of WITNESS (1985). I first saw DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) as a teenager and thought it was a film to inspire young people. Watching it now, it feels like a prayer to parents, to help their kids to follow their own path, not the expected one.
positive · AI labelView post →#readandplay (89) #MusicChallenge From the movie Dead Poets Society Maurice Jarre & Peter Weir Carpe Diem youtu.be/iJMkBh89AXE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →267.) Dead Poets Society (1989) @fm-synth.bsky.social's movie night A beautifully-shot, emotional movie about finding joy in the arts and how the authority figures in your life will try to stomp it out of you. There's a reason why this movie still resonates with art-loving teens to this day.
positive · AI labelView post →Now listening: Maurice Jarre – Dead Poets Society 1990 French first press on Milan. The original Soundtrack for the great movie starring Robin Williams. Beautiful music composed and conducted by the father of Jean-Michel Jarre. #MauriceJarre #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve been tracking Puck/Robin Goodfellow as a “Taylor reference” ever since I realized TTPD was a soundtrack for Dead Poets Society. DPS provides additional context for TTPD. In the film, Neil has a complicated relationship with his dad because he wants to act & he’s queercoded. 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →without saying good morning vietnam, fav robin williams film? Dead Poets Society (1989)
neutral · AI labelView post →Matt is right as usual about this very strange movie, which mixes Dead Poets Society with I’m Still Here and adds a penguin
neutral · AI labelView post →Is this from Dead Poets' Society? That movie really broke my pre-teen computer nerd brain and it took about a decade to figure out what it meant for me and my life.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your fav Robin Williams film. Since my favorite is already taken below,👇 here's another I like... Dead Poets Society
positive · AI labelView post →DEAD POETS SOCIETY!!!! IF YOU KNOW ME YOU KNOW MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME IS DEAD POETS SOCIETY AND IDGAF WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS
positive · AI labelView post →I have not seen the full film, but his character in Dead Poets Society often comes to mind when i think about disregarding what others might think of your work and forgetting them in order to create art that comes from the heart
neutral · AI labelView post →I am watching #deadPoetsSociety feeling hopeful but also having a good cry. "Come on Charlie, let it fill your soul!" We should do a watchparty or something around this sometime, sah good. 🥲 In the meantime, if you need a reminder of a good movie, and want to know someone else is on another couch somewhere watching too, I'm here. 💛 @lonelinesscorps
positive · AI labelView post →You'd think this was The Dead Poets Society, instead of a film about a devoted fascist ruining her pupils' lives
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? It was a good year. Dead Poets Society/Field of Dreams/Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure/Henry V/The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Shall I go on? :)
neutral · AI labelView post →It still frustrates me that Hollywood ignored Peter Weir’s superb anti-war film Gallipoli (out today, 1981) and it’s heartbreaking final image, but gushed awards on his emotionally manipulative Dead Poets Society with its “Isn’t nonconformity lovely” message. Ah well, that’s show biz. Love Gallipoli
negative · AI labelView post →I gotta combat the DEAD POETS SOCIETY love out here. I wrote this at @slantmagazine.com when it turned 25. www.slantmagazine.com/film/summer-...
negative · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky 04/30 A movie you loved in high school Dead Poets Society
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Dead Poets Society. Neil and Todd are gay babies, and this movie walked so Heartstopper could run. It speaks for itself.
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just .gifs 14/20 - Dead Poets Society #FilmSky #Movies 📽️🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →A little info on my tastes.. Fave TV shows: 24 Family Guy Big Bang Theory Film: Dead Poets Society Good Will Hunting Interstellar Music: Marillion U2 War on Drugs Have a great day :)
neutral · AI labelView post →Now all I knew about society was it had fucked up practical body horror effects so I was IN. Also the plot involves rich folk, this first film was set at a fancy boarding school IT WAS FUCKING DEAD POETS SOCIETY
neutral · AI labelView post →This is 1 of the movies that literally changed my life. It's called DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams' work in this film, & the whole cast/crew for that matter, created something extremely special here. If you've not seen it yet, I highly recommend it! Go in fresh, with no details. #CARPEDIEM! #LA
positive · AI labelView post →The thing about Master and Commander is that you don’t have to look too hard to see it’s a film by the guy who made Dead Poets Society
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watching Dead Poets Society. Imagine being an English teacher and never having seen this movie. It’s my time to have emotions, and tonight is that time.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Dead Poets Society. It's a fav fall rewatch, but I wasn't sure I was ready for it this year bc it feels too... real for the moment. But damn do I love this movie. It made me want to be a teacher (I know... What a cliché).
positive · AI labelView post →I was watching Dead Poets Society this morning. Why does this dude kinda look like Nic from Love Island? lol
neutral · AI labelView post →not to mention silly little details like Dead Poets Society being a movie from 1989 and actors from it in said music video
neutral · AI labelView post →Pick a Movie or TV series for each season! Here are mine: 🍂 Autumn - Dead Poets Society 📖 ❄️ Winter - Peaky Blinders 🥃 🪻 Spring - Tangled 🌼 ☀️ Summer - Outer Banks ☀️
neutral · AI labelView post →I somehow love film, and also did an English degree, and still hadn't seen this film. Course-corrected, and it was decent, but based on what others had said I guess I was also a bit underwhelmed. My ★★★ review of Dead Poets Society on Letterboxd boxd.it/aZAqa3
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