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				Dead Poets Society (1989) | 
			 
				
			
			
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				Film rated 3.8 / 5 
				(Chick rating: 4.4 / 5) 
				(Guy rating: 3.7 / 5)
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		| Open to die-verse interpretation. | 
	 
	
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		| Students go bard hopping. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams needs no introduction. | 
	 
	
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		| Poet 'sentenced' to death. | 
	 
	
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		| Robin, Hawke become allies. | 
	 
	
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		| Poetry in e-motion, vice-versa. | 
	 
	
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		| Professor verses students. | 
	 
	
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		| Prate, verse, then death. | 
	 
	
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		| Teacher averse to conformity. | 
	 
	
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		| Dead Student's Society emerges. | 
	 
	
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		| School desks' strength tested. | 
	 
	
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		| Rhyming with dead people. | 
	 
	
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		| Sailor man becomes Captain. | 
	 
	
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		| Puck joins daisy pushers. | 
	 
	
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		| Schoolboys desperately need hobby. | 
	 
	
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		| Whitman poem becomes shibboleth. | 
	 
	
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		| Robbin' William Shakespeare. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams inspires angsty brats. | 
	 
	
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		| Puck's performance? Mindblowing. | 
	 
	
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		| Neil's theatrics end fatally. | 
	 
	
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		| Students stanza on merits. | 
	 
	
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		| Actually, Dead Schoolboy Society. | 
	 
	
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		| Corporal punishment metred out. | 
	 
	
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		| Weir's Rhymes of Passion. | 
	 
	
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		| Neil's acting career's pucked. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams captains poet students. | 
	 
	
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		| Poetry seriously damages health! | 
	 
	
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		| Pretentious suicide overtly poetic. | 
	 
	
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		| Student Poet commits suicide. | 
	 
	
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		| Mork's inspiring poetry lessons. | 
	 
	
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		| Suicide escapes doing exams. | 
	 
	
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		| Boy actuates club's name. | 
	 
	
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		| Ultimately, Williams lacks class. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Scan'dal at Welton Academy. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams wisecracks Walt Whitman. | 
	 
	
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		| Captain Williams seizes role. | 
	 
	
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		| Frustrated actor kills himself. | 
	 
	
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		| Leonard: day seized, deceased. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams captains boys' spirits. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams teaches poetry, life. | 
	 
	
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		| Robin jabbers, Boy shoots. | 
	 
	
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		| Students changed through poetry. | 
	 
	
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		| Kids standing honours teacher. | 
	 
	
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		| Dalton receives God's call. | 
	 
	
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		| Mork, chalk, hanging dork. | 
	 
	
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		| Keating's time is fleeting. | 
	 
	
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		| Neil - final year student. | 
	 
	
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		| Poetic Robin teaches hotties. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams irritates conservative educators. | 
	 
	
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		| Carpe diem = cave, death. | 
	 
	
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		| Schoolboys rehearse adult life. | 
	 
	
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		| Mork's 'A Separate Peace'. | 
	 
	
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		| Schoolboys seize the day. | 
	 
	
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		| Charming chap chooses choking. | 
	 
	
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		| Robin's students carpe diem. | 
	 
	
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		| Puck's brains carpe diem. | 
	 
	
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		| Puck exits marrow suckers. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams seizes Oscar nomination. | 
	 
	
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		| Wise teacher shakes school. | 
	 
	
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		| Old-fashioned rap inspires students. | 
	 
	
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		| Dead poets inspire students. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams. Hawke. 'Barbaric yawp'. | 
	 
	
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		| Teacher develops schoolboys' individuality. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams becomes wishful teacher. | 
	 
	
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		| Robin lectures with W(h)itman. | 
	 
	
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		| Byron Man: Robin Williams. | 
	 
	
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		| Literature; improv; seizing; attrition. | 
	 
	
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		| Students swallow Robin's teachings. | 
	 
	
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		| Sensitive professor inspires, instructs. | 
	 
	
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		| Williams wins Hawke's brain. | 
	 
	
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		| Sappy drama abuses poetry. | 
	 
	
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		| Strict rules provoke reform. | 
	 
	
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