Dead Poets Society. 1989.
Robin Williams takes the lead as a English teacher in his former school using poetry as a means to get his students to express themselves.
The movie plays in and centers around a private academy somewhere in New England. The curriculum is extremely difficult and the teachers have no humour and are very strict. The new English teacher though, Mr John Keating is the type of teacher everyone probably wanting, telling pupils to stand on their desks and see everything from a different perspective.
This is something different for Robin Williams as he was usually a comedic actor, for a drama piece set in 1959 he does tend to bring some laughter to the screen and has the audience thinking if he improvised anything. The characters are well written for the young boys especially Neil played by Robert Sean Leonard who is under the strict thumb of his father Kirkwood Smith and wants to follow a different path that his old man wants and tragedy strikes, but you got admire the ending with the boys of the society making a stand.
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