Dead Poets Society
1989, PG, 128 min.
Directed by Peter Weir, Starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles.

A charismatic teacher’s effect on his impressionable students leads to trouble and an Oscar for the film’s screenplay by Tom Shulman.

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