Dead Poets Society

"Dead Poets Society" is a film starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Ruggiero, and James Waterston. It was released in 1989. The director, Peter Weir, tells the story of an English teacher at a 1950's boy's school. The teacher inspires his students to overcome their reluctance to make changes in their lives and stirs up their interests in poetry and literature.

Painfully shy Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His roommate, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard, is under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating (Robin Williams), their new English teacher. He tells them of the Dead Poets Society, an old literary club of which Mr. Keating, himself, was a member. He encourages them to go against the status quo and find one's own identity within oneself. Each, in their own way, does this, and is changed for life.