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Film
United States · 1989
128 min
Film · United States · 1989

Dead Poets Society

Peter Weir·128 min

Keating, the new English master at a stifling 1959 boarding school, teaches his boys to stand on desks, tear up the textbook, and treat poetry as a reason to live. Robin Williams plays it with unusual restraint, and the awakening is genuinely stirring.

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