Dead Poets Society | | Cast : | Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke | | Director : | Peter Weir | | Studio : | Touchstone Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 09, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | March 04, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | I love this movie | Content
 | dead poet's society is a really great film, if you haven't seen it yet, i wholeheartedly reccommend it. it was very inspiring, and even though it was sad at the end (a real tear-jerker) it is a movie i have watched over and over. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 27, 2005 | | Summary | Follow your bliss! | Content
| Through the inflamed breath of a literature teacher, a group of students will involve with such passion and imaginative fertility that will overpass all the limits. But the transgression of certain mental barriers may lead to the tragedy.
Since its release this picture has reached a cult status.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | Inspiring and poignant. Robin Williams at his best! | Content
| I recently viewed this movie for about the third time, and I loved it no less than the first viewing. In fact, the older I get, the more this movie speaks to me with its message about the fleeting nature of our lives, and of our opportunities to live them fully.
Robin Williams is absolutely brilliant as John Keating, a new teacher at the Welton Academy, an all-boys' preparatory school. Welton (also called "Hellton" by the students) is a place of deep tradition and strong discipline, where scholarship is exalted and frivolity of any kind is discouraged and promptly squelched. Conformity is the order of the day, and that order is rigidly enforced by the entire Welton staff.
By all, that is, except Mr. Keating. Keating approaches life with an eager heart and an open mind as he pursues his motto, "Carpe Diem", seize the day. As a teacher of English poetry, he makes language and literature come alive, not just as a means of communicating ideas, but as the very stuff of life -- love, passion, adventure and mystery -- dripping from the pens of poets long dead. He inspires the teenage young men to look beyond cultural pressures and demands for conformity, and to live life with an irrepressible zest while there's still time. Too many men, Keating reminds his students, live lives of quiet desperation, and he exhorts them not to follow suit.
The students resurrect the "Dead Poets Society", a secret and unauthorized group of bon vivants who choose to live out the "carpe diem" philosophy. Meeting in a remote Indian cave, the "Poets" breathe new life into the poetry they read, and allow it to breathe new life into them, as "spirits soar, women swoon, and gods are created" in their sessions.
The movie is also one of conflict and immense loss. Neil, one of the students and a leader of the Poets, realizes his passion, and his gift, for acting. When he chooses to "seize the day" and pursue his calling, he encounters sharp and unrelenting opposition from his stern father, who is a foil for "the system" that holds the souls of men in the dreary bondage of conformity. Neil is taken to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of despair as he is caught in the battle between his heart's desire and his father's demands. The result is tragic.
For those who have never seen this movie, by all means do! If you already have seen it, watch it again, and remind yourself how to live. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | Great movie! | Content
| This movie is excellent. I especially enjoyed it because I am a high school English teacher; however, I think anyone would enjoy this movie. It is a thought-provoking movie that makes poetry and words come to life. Robin Williams is excellent in this film- he displays humor along with his dramatic role and I would recommend it to anyone. Parts of it are hard to watch, and it is very frustrating, but the last scene of the movie is worth the heartache. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 23, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent! | Content
| This is definitely one of the best movies I've ever watched, and the most heart-wrenching. Most of the movie I had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes, and the only reason I din't cry then and there was because I was watching it in school with my class, and I did do some good crying when I was alone. An excellent movie, great acting, 99999 stars! (And for you ladies- even though I know he's too old for me, the actor palying Neil is real cute! |
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