Dead Poets Society [videorecording] / 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.

Dead Poets Society [videorecording] / 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.

Dead Poets Society (Motion picture)

Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [1998]

1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

metal plastic

Robin Williams portrays 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.

English or French language soundtracks (Dolby surround) ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.

Director of photography, John Seale ; music by Maurice Jarre ; editor, William Anderson.

Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Dylan Kussman.

DVD (with chapter stops), Widescreen version presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio (1.85:1).

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