Dead Poets Society,
directed by Peter Weir,
written by Tom Schulman,
was
released in the United States on June 2, 1989.
Music by Maurice Jarre.
“We don't read and write
poetry because it's cute.
We read and write poetry because we are members of
the human race.
And the human race is filled with passion.
And medicine, law, business,
engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
But
poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
To quote from
Whitman:
‘O me! O life! of the
questions of these recurring, of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities
filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you
are here - that life exists, and identity, that the powerful play goes on and
you may contribute a verse.’
That the powerful play
goes on and you may contribute a verse.
What will your verse
be?”
– Robin Williams, as
John Keating.
I went to the woods
because I wanted to live deliberately …
I wanted to live deep
and suck out all the marrow of life!
To put to rout all that
was not life …
And not, when I came to
die, discover that I had not lived …
– Hand-written quote in
this still is modified from the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Cast:
Robin Williams, Robert
Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd, Kurtwood
Smith, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Ruggiero, James Waterston, Alexandra Powers, Leon
Pownall, George Martin, Carla Belver, Jane Moore, Kevin Cooney, Colin Irving, Matt
Carey, John Cunningham, Joe Aufiery, Melora Walters, Welker White, Steve
Mathios, Alan Pottinger, Pamela Burrell, Allison Hedges, Christine D'Ercole, Debra
Mooney, John Martin Bradley, Charles Lord, Kurt Leitner, Richard Stites, James
J. Christy, Catherine Soles, Hoover Sutton, James Donnell Quinn, Simon Mein, Ashton
W. Richards, Robert Gleason, Bill Rowe, Robert J. Zigler III, Keith Snyder, Nicholas
K. Gilhool, Jonas Stiklorius, Craig Johnson, Chris Hull, Jason Woody, Sam
Stegeman, Andrew Hill, Serena Ebhardt, Joel Fogel, Newton Gilchrist, Barry
Godin, Kate Kearney-Patch, Jamie Kennedy, Nancy Kirk, Stephen Podolak, Jeffrey
Santoro, James R. Stoddard.