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The Resource Dead Poets Society, Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; a Steven Haft production in association with Witt-Thomas Productions ; a Peter Weir film ; written by Tom Schulman ; produced by Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas ; directed by Peter Weir, (DVD)

Dead Poets Society, Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; a Steven Haft production in association with Witt-Thomas Productions ; a Peter Weir film ; written by Tom Schulman ; produced by Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas ; directed by Peter Weir, (DVD)

Label
Dead Poets Society
Title
Dead Poets Society
Statement of responsibility
Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; a Steven Haft production in association with Witt-Thomas Productions ; a Peter Weir film ; written by Tom Schulman ; produced by Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas ; directed by Peter Weir
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming ... "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever
Awards note
Academy Award, 1990: Best writing, screenplay written directly for the screen.
Cataloging source
NVC
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, John Seale ; music by Maurice Jarre ; editor, William Anderson
Intended audience
Rated PG
Language note
In English or dubbed French; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
PerformerNote
Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Dylan Kussman
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1951-2014
  • 1969-
  • 1970-
  • 1971-
  • 1944-
  • 1941-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Williams, Robin
  • Leonard, Robert Sean
  • Hawke, Ethan
  • Charles, Josh
  • Hansen, Gale
  • Kussman, Dylan
  • Weir, Peter
  • Schulman, Tom
  • Witt, Paul Junger
  • Thomas, Tony
  • Touchstone Pictures
  • Silver Screen Partners IV
  • Touchstone Home Video (Firm)
  • Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
Runtime
141
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Boarding schools
  • Teacher-student relationships
  • Boarding school students
  • English teachers
  • Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Label
Dead Poets Society, Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; a Steven Haft production in association with Witt-Thomas Productions ; a Peter Weir film ; written by Tom Schulman ; produced by Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas ; directed by Peter Weir, (DVD)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Videodisc release of the 1989 motion picture
Color
multicolored
Control code
ocm40924552
Dimensions
4 1/2 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Extent
1 videodisc (129 min.)
Isbn
9781558908871
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
717951000682
Other physical details
sd., col.
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) ACW-6251
System details
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen version presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio (1.85:1); Dolby Digital surround
Video recording format
laserdisc
Label
Dead Poets Society, Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; a Steven Haft production in association with Witt-Thomas Productions ; a Peter Weir film ; written by Tom Schulman ; produced by Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas ; directed by Peter Weir, (DVD)
Publication
Note
Videodisc release of the 1989 motion picture
Color
multicolored
Control code
ocm40924552
Dimensions
4 1/2 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Extent
1 videodisc (129 min.)
Isbn
9781558908871
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
717951000682
Other physical details
sd., col.
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(Sirsi) ACW-6251
System details
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen version presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio (1.85:1); Dolby Digital surround
Video recording format
laserdisc

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