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As devout followers of ‘ Dead Poets Society,’ we’ve been seizing every day since the mantra of living was handed to us. Directed by Peter Weir, ‘Dead Poets Society’ follows boys’ lives at a prep ...

Despite the darkness in Simpson Asylum this week, there were two words visibly scrawled above a number of door frames. Those two words are “carpe diem,” or “seize the day,” a Latin exhortation ...

Dead Poets Society can be summarized in one repeated refrain: “Carpe Diem.” Seize the day. It’s a warning as much as it is a call-to-action. Within it is an implied “because” statement.

Made on a modest budget of $16.4 million Dead Poets Society managed to rake in an impressive $235.9 million worldwide with the film’s global receipts being the fifth highest for 1989.