Summer of '89: Poets, Vampires, and Wrestlers

Words and ideas can change the world.

Hollywood greeted June ‘89 with a menagerie of career-defining acting performances. We’re covering three of them this week.

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Dead Poets Society (1989)

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

June 2, 1989

Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Kurtwood Smith
cinematography by John Seale
music by Maurice Jarre
screenplay by Tom Schulman
produced by Steven Haft. Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
directed by Peter Weir