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Directed by Peter Weir...
...director Peter Weir decided, wisely though painfully, to allow reality to intrude. And in the reality of a New England boarding school, the Dead Poet's Society floundered...
Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead ) serious this time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama...
DEAD POETS SOCIETY Directed by Peter Weir; Screenplay by Tom Schulman...
...fairly as this picture does. Encouraged by his mentor, Leonard's character defies parental and school authority to reach out for his dream (he wants to be an actor, not the doctor his father insists he must become) and finds that it is beyond his emotional grasp. Though director Weir, who is good at unspoken menace (Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave), has created a subtly dark and claustrophobic atmosphere, the final tragedy is nonetheless somewhat implausible...