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It's [[TheFifties 1959]], and the prestigious, all-boys' Welton Academy in Vermont has just hired John Keating (Williams) as its new English teacher for the upcoming school year. A BlitheSpirit, Keating uses his classes to inspire his students to go against the flow and be themselves, somehow managing to make reading poetry seem like a cool, rebellious thing to do. A group of the students -- including [[ShrinkingViolet Todd Anderson]] (Hawke), [[TheAce Neil Perry]] (Leonard), [[ClassClown Charlie Dalton]] (Hansen), [[StalkerWithACrush Knox Overstreet]] (Charles), [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Richard Cameron]] (Dylan Kussman), [[TheSmartGuy Steven Meeks]] (Allelon Ruggiero), and [[TheBigGuy Gerard Pitts]] (James Waterston) -- form the [[TrueCompanions Dead Poets Society]], a secretive clique who sneak away from campus at night to read poetry in a secluded cave. But after witnessing Keating's unorthodox teaching methods and their effects on Welton's students, school [[DeanBitterman headmaster]] Gale Nolan (Lloyd) is determined to rein in both him and the unsanctioned Society.

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It's [[TheFifties 1959]], and the prestigious, all-boys' Welton Academy in Vermont has just hired John Keating (Williams) as its new English teacher for the upcoming school year. A BlitheSpirit, Keating uses his classes to inspire his students to go against the flow and be themselves, somehow managing to make reading poetry {{poetry}} seem like a cool, rebellious thing to do. A group of the students -- including [[ShrinkingViolet Todd Anderson]] (Hawke), [[TheAce Neil Perry]] (Leonard), [[ClassClown Charlie Dalton]] (Hansen), [[StalkerWithACrush Knox Overstreet]] (Charles), [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Richard Cameron]] (Dylan Kussman), [[TheSmartGuy Steven Meeks]] (Allelon Ruggiero), and [[TheBigGuy Gerard Pitts]] (James Waterston) -- form the [[TrueCompanions Dead Poets Society]], a secretive clique who sneak away from campus at night to read poetry in a secluded cave. But after witnessing Keating's unorthodox teaching methods and their effects on Welton's students, school [[DeanBitterman headmaster]] Gale Nolan (Lloyd) is determined to rein in both him and the unsanctioned Society.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring : [[spoiler : Mr Perry loses his son Neil, who killed himself]].

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring : [[spoiler : Mr [[spoiler:Mr Perry loses his son Neil, who killed himself]].
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring : [[spoiler : Mr Perry loses his son Neil, who killed himself]].
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* AbusiveParents : Neil Perry's father is emotionally abusive and domineering towards his son, [[spoiler: he wants Neil to go to Harvard and study medicine, but Neil prefers acting. He shows no support for his son's passion, demands him not to act in the play, but his son disobeys him, on Keating's encouragements. After the play, Neil's father takes his son home, enroll him in a military academy, despite Neil's protestations. His mother didn't help either]]. Todd's parents are in the same case.
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Neil Perry, big time. During the movie, he discovers his passion for acting, but his stern father doesn't show any support for this, and demands him to quit the play he has been chosen for. He disobeys, nevertheless, and after the play, he has to face his father's anger at home. Family pressure made him totally powerless and distraught, and drove him to shoot himself with his old man's gun]].

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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Neil Perry, big time. During the movie, he discovers his passion for acting, but his stern father doesn't show any support for this, and demands him to quit the play he has been chosen for. He disobeys, nevertheless, and after the play, he has to face his father's anger at home. Family pressure pressure, total lack of support and emotional neglection made him totally powerless and distraught, and drove him to shoot himself with his old man's gun]].

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* AbusiveParents : Neil Perry's father is emotionally abusive and domineering towards his son, [[spoiler: he wants Neil to go to Harvard and study medicine, but Neil prefers acting. He shows no support for his son's passion, demands him not to act in the play, but his son disobeys him, on Keating's encouragements. After the play, Neil's father takes his son home, enroll him in a military academy, despite Neil's protestations.]]. Todd's parents are in the same case.

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* AbusiveParents : Neil Perry's father is emotionally abusive and domineering towards his son, [[spoiler: he wants Neil to go to Harvard and study medicine, but Neil prefers acting. He shows no support for his son's passion, demands him not to act in the play, but his son disobeys him, on Keating's encouragements. After the play, Neil's father takes his son home, enroll him in a military academy, despite Neil's protestations.]]. His mother didn't help either]]. Todd's parents are in the same case.


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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Neil Perry, big time. During the movie, he discovers his passion for acting, but his stern father doesn't show any support for this, and demands him to quit the play he has been chosen for. He disobeys, nevertheless, and after the play, he has to face his father's anger at home. Family pressure made him totally powerless and distraught, and drove him to shoot himself with his old man's gun]].
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* AbusiveParents : Neil Perry's father is emotionally abusive and domineering towards his son, [[spoiler: he wants Neil to go to Harvard and study medicine, but Neil prefers acting. He shows no support for his son's passion, demands him not to act in the play, but his son disobeys him, on Keating's encouragements. After the play, Neil's father takes his son home, enroll him in a military academy, despite Neil's protestations.]]. Todd's parents are in the same case.


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* DrivenToSuicide : [[spoiler:Neil Perry, with the gun of his father]].
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** [[HelicopterParents Mr. Perry]] and [[ParentalNeglect Mr. Anderson]]. Both are emotionally AbusiveParents to Neil and Todd respectively, but Mr. Perry is overly controlling of Neil's life and determined that he'll have a successful future and career no matter the cost to his son's happiness and well-being, while the Andersons neglect and ignore Todd, viewing him as the failure of the family.

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** [[HelicopterParents Mr. Perry]] and [[ParentalNeglect Mr. Anderson]]. Both are emotionally AbusiveParents to Neil and Todd respectively, but Mr. Perry is overly controlling of Neil's life and determined that he'll have he's headed for a successful future and medical career no matter the cost to his son's happiness and well-being, while the Andersons neglect and ignore Todd, viewing him as the failure of the family.
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* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted. All [[spoiler:Neil's]] father has to say when he [[spoiler:discovers Neil's corpse]] is "[[ItsAllAboutMe My son, my son]]," and [[spoiler:he blames Keating for the boy's being DrivenToSuicide, [[NeverMyFault completely failing to understand that it's his own fault]]]].

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* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Subverted. All [[spoiler:Neil's]] father has to say when he [[spoiler:discovers After Neil's corpse]] is "[[ItsAllAboutMe My son, my son]]," and death, [[spoiler:he blames Keating for the boy's being DrivenToSuicide, [[NeverMyFault completely failing to understand that it's his own fault]]]].

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