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Stay with the blanket. Tell me about that blanket! Todd Anderson : Y-Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying t-to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.
Jun 9, 1989 · With Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles. Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Weir
- 1989-06-09
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at the fictional elite boarding school, Welton Academy, [4] and tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
The Protagonist. In a classic protagonist move, shy-guy-turned-poet Todd shows the most growth throughout the film, and it's his journey that we spend the most time following…in large part because Todd benefits more than anyone else from Mr. Keating's inspirational Lit class. MR.
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- 'Dead Poet's Society' Hawke's appearance in a Princeton University theater production led to an audition for his feature debut, the teen adventure flop Explorers (1985), with fellow fledgling actor River Phoenix.
- 'Dad,' 'Mystery Date' Hawke moved to New York City and worked steadily in films from then on, next appearing in the teary film Dad (1989), playing Ted Danson's son and Jack Lemmon's grandson.
- 'Reality Bites,' 'Before Sunrise' His role as the scruffy, philosophical slacker who pines for Winona Ryder in Reality Bites (1994), directed by Ben Stiller and also featuring Janeane Garofalo and Steven Zahn, made Hawke a heartthrob for Generation X. He expanded his moody romantic-lead portfolio in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995), co-starring Julie Delpy.
- 'Gattaca' A newly buff Hawke reappeared on the big screen in the 1997 sci-fi thriller Gattaca, in which he infiltrates a society of genetically perfect humans by assuming another man's identity.
Apr 20, 2024 · Ethan Hawke in the Dead Poets Society and in 2019. Buena Vista Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection; Theo Wargo/Getty. Ethan Hawke 's shy Todd Anderson kicks the whole story off...
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Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater 's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013.
