![]() ![]() Richard, who had been taking copious notes, is confused when Keating erases the graph off the chalkboard and quickly scribbles through the graph he had just drawn. The learn about an absurd method about how to rate a poem involving a line graph (please tell me this isn't real!) and Keating tells them it's a load of garbage and to tear out the pages of the introduction. Keating's English class and he has told them to rip out the entire introduction of their textbook. After they have attended their history, science, and math classes with the usual lectures, they become unsure when they're in Mr. Keating is unlike any teacher the boys have ever had at Welton Academy. I wish I could say that he got his wish and Neil went on to become a successful doctor and I could make a House (because Robert Sean Leonard would go on to play Wilson in House!) joke here, but that doesn't quite happen. His passion is to be an actor, but his strict father (Kurtwood Smith) wants him to be a doctor. While all the students work together as an ensemble, it's Neil who is the leader and has the most screen time of any of the other young men. And there's others I'm sure I'm forgetting. ![]() His young students include the shy Todd (Ethan Hawke) his roommate, outspoken Neil (Robert Sean Leonard) romantic dreamer Knox (Josh Charles) stickler-for-the rules Richard (or "dorky redhead" as I call him!) and rule-breaker Charlie. Keating's first year of teaching at Welton. The film takes place in 1959 and it's also Mr.
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