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A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind arrived in 2001 with a simple pitch and a director, Ron Howard, who clearly had bigger ambitions for the drama genre than the logline suggested. The film’s own tagline — “He saw the world in a way no one could have imagined.” — tells you almost everything about the tone it’s going…
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Dead Poets Society
Few drama pictures manage to stick the landing quite like Dead Poets Society, Peter Weir’s 1989 release that still gets passed around by people who swear it’s underrated. “He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.” That’s the line the studio chose to sell the film, and it doesn’t oversell it by much. The…