It may be hard to explain Peter Weir's beloved classic "Dead Poets Society" to today's youth because no sane teenager, who has the smallest penchant to ever be cool, would admit to reading poetry (and most probably don't). Still, it's an ageless movie that's somehow very specific to a certain time, and the time of those teens, which isn't as easy to grasp and connect with for kids three decades later. Too much has changed in the world. At the same time, everyone who has ever been a teenager understands that in our formative years, we immediately know when someone says (or does) something fake and unrealistic about us.

In 1989, an 18-year-old Ethan Hawke understood that, too. His criticism of one of his key scenes was overheard by the director, who let him rewrite the sequence, drawing f

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