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Where was Dead Poets Society filmed?

1990 film, directed by Peter Weir.

  • Delaware

The story is set in Welton Academy.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Welton Academy
Filmed in
Delaware
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About Dead Poets Society

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Released
1990
Director
Peter Weir
Cast
Robin WilliamsRobert Sean LeonardEthan HawkeJosh CharlesGale HansenNorman LloydKurtwood SmithGeorge MartinMelora WaltersAlexandra Powers
Genre
Coming-of-ageDramaTeen
Awards
Academy Award for Best Writing; Original Screenplay; BAFTA Award for Best Original Music; BAFTA Award for Best Film and 2 more

In the fall of 1959, Todd Anderson begins his junior year of high school at Welton Academy, an Episcopal all-male preparatory boarding school in Vermont.

Keating teaches them the Latin expression carpe diem, encouraging them to "seize the day".

Knox pursues Chris Noel, a cheerleader who is dating Chet Danburry, a football player whose family is friends with his.

Famous lines from Dead Poets Society

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • Two feel taller!Charlie
  • Freethinkers at seventeen?McAllister
  • Funny I never pegged you as a cynic.Keating
  • We're not talking artists, George, we're talking freethinkers.Keating
  • Phone call from God. If it had been collect, that would have been daring!Keating

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