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Movie Review: Dead Poets Society

Any movie title with the words, ‘Dead' and ‘Poet,' might strike someone as being a little strange or even a little boring. However, do not judge a book by its cover with this mind busting, deep thinker of a drama. This film, directed by Peter Weir adds a little poetry to this truly inspirational, heart-felt movie that makes anyone who has ever known what it feels like to want to rebel in a nonconformist culture. This solid, smart entertainment breaks out of the social norms and teaches free thinking and a strong moral value to anyone who watches it.
Academy Award Winner, Robin Williams, stars as John Keating, an unorthodox and charismatic English teacher at the exclusive all boys Welton Academy in the beautiful and vast forests of Vermont in 1959. At this very posh, expensive school of conformity and dress code, Keating urges the boys of Welton, or "Hellton" as the students call it, to live life to the fullest and as he says to them,......

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