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Dead Poets Society
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer84%as of 2022-11-29
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.3/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic79/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. It stars Robin Williams and is set in 1959 at a fictional boarding school called Welton Academy, and focuses around a select group of boys, who over time take several pieces of advice from their English teacher, John Keating (Williams).
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- English
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