At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Dead Poets Society has generally received very positive reviews.
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Dead Poets Society was released in 1989 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 844 reviews, giving Dead Poets Society (1989) an average rating of 83%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 84%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 75%.
With a score of 83%, Dead Poets Society is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1989, which stands at 57%.
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