Damn it Neil, the name is Newanda!
Charlie
- Director
- Peter Weir
- Cast
- Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Norman Lloyd
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Genres
- coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
- Country
- United States
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Dead Poets Society (1989) gave classrooms their modern liturgy: 'Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys' and 'O Captain! My Captain!' -- the latter borrowed from Walt Whitman's elegy for Abraham Lincoln, which the film repurposes as a student salute. Robin Williams improvised around Tom Schulman's Oscar-winning script, but the desk-standing finale was scripted exactly as filmed.