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Podcast: Old Roommates
Episode: Ep 65: "Dead Poets Society" Revisited
Description: Ohhhhhh, Neil. He came, he made goofy faces, he left our world so early...and dramatically.Actually, Neil is just one of the main characters with a flair for drama in 1989’s Dead PoetsSociety. A slow-burning showcase for Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke and writer-director PeterWeir, the school-based hit charmed critics and audiences alike. But, decades later, is it a rousinginspiration or a boring blockbuster? Is Neil an over-reactor, a bad actor or just played by one?Does the movie do too good a job putting the ‘bored’ in ‘boarding school’? The Old Roommates<...