Dead Poets Society

Review: Dead Poets Society is an entertaining film centered around two major concepts, freethinking and Carpe Diem. Robin Williams (Fisher King, Awakenings) in an unexpected role for him at the time, playing a more reserved character, is excellent as John Keating, the English teacher who influences the impressionable group of young kids. The students are well cast, Ethan Hawke (Todd Anderson) and Gale Hansen (Charles Dalton) did a particularly good job. A couple other Peter Weir films that I have enjoyed include: The Mosquito Coast and Gallipoli. -Review by Aaron Caldwell