Somewhere between "Good Morning, Vietnam" and "Patch Adams"...

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2006)

I notice that Robin Williams often plays a free-spirited neophyte who introduces a new modus operandi, and his superiors try to stop him. "Good Morning, Vietnam" and "Patch Adams" are the two obvious examples, but "Dead Poets Society" is another (maybe even "Awakenings" fits into this category). In this one, he plays English professor John Keating, who teaches his students a new way of looking at everything in an Ivy League school in 1959.
When I first saw this, I noticed that it starred the dad from "That '70s Show", and from this movie I learned that his name is Kurtwood Smith. Also starring are Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard. I've never seen a Peter Weir movie that I didn't like, and this affirms that list. Maybe it won't change how you view the world, but you're sure to like what Robin Williams makes everyone do with their textbooks.