Seize the secrets of the Dead Poets Society and make the most of them

Midsummer isn’t over yet, but A.J Dead Poets Society Rewatching is still a dreamy choice for spring.

Set in 1959, the film stars a group of up-and-coming lovers as students at the elite, all-boys Wilton Academy. Robin Williams As the English teacher who inspires them, it hit theaters 35 years ago and immediately made its mark as a box office hit.

Tom Shulman He won an Academy Award for the film’s original screenplay, one of the film’s five nominations which included Best Picture and Best Director Peter Weir And best actor for Williams, who until then had been known more for lively comedic performances than the quiet domestic drama at which he also proved adept.

And for anyone who hasn’t realized how deeply the trials endured by Mr. Keating’s band of prosperous Tennyson amateurs have ingrained themselves in the collective psyche, Taylor Swift I knew all too well the power of nostalgia: it clicked Dead Poets Society stars Ethan Hawke And Josh Charles– Wilton’s boys Todd and Knox, FTW – to play mad scientists in her “Fortnight” video.