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Dead Poets Society (1989): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 drama film directed by Peter Weir. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, 79 on Metacritic, 8.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 2 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 97 films from 1989 in our catalog and number 121 of 3,595 drama films.
Billed cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Dylan Kussman.
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