Rusalka's twenty-sixth film review: Seize the day!

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2003)

The time is the mid-1950's and we find ourselves within the hallowed walls of a New England Prep School enclave: Welton Academy. Robin Williams turns in his finest dramatic performance of his career with this film as English Professor John Keating. Although his teaching methods and most of his ways are unorthodox, Keating fires up his students by making them defy conventionality and actually begin thinking for themselves and not for how others see them. Without giving too much of the film away, it is a tearjerker but you also stand up and cheer at certain moments. It is a heartfelt slice of American Cinema History.
Dead Poets Society was nominated for four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) winning for Best Original Screenplay, losing Best Picture to Driving Miss Daisy. Robin Williams lost the Best Actor Award to Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot.
My rating: 4 stars