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DEAD POETS SOCIETY
1. Carpe Diem (4:48)
2. Neal (3:16)
3. To The Cave (2:34)
4. Keating's Triumph (5:59)

MOSQUITO COAST
5. The Mosquito Coast

WITNESS
6.Building The Barn (4:59)

THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
7. Prelude (2:17)
8. Death of a Child (5:06)
9. Kwan (7:06)
10. Kwan's Sacrifice (7:57)

DEAD POET'S SOCIETY - Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process (and life itself) changed when a new teacher comes to the school. John Keating (Williams) is an unconventional educator who tears chapters of his textbooks and asks his students to stand on their desks to see the world from a new angle. Keating introduces his students to poetry, and his free-thinking attitude and the liberating philosophies of the authors he introduces to his class have a profound effect on his students, especially Todd (Ethan Hawke), who would like to be a writer; Neil (Sean Robert Leonard), who dreams of being an actor, despite the objections of his father; Knox (Josh Charles), a hopeless romantic; Steven (Allelon Ruggiero), an intellectual who learns to use his heart as well as his head; Charlie (Gale Hansen), who begins to lose his blasé attitude; unconventional Gerard (James Waterston); and practical Richard (Dylan Kussman). Keating urges his students to seize the day and live their lives boldly; but when this philosophy leads to an unexpected tragedy, headmaster Mr. Nolan (Norman Lloyd) fires Keating, and his students leap to his defense. Dead Poets Society was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Williams; it won one, for Tom Schulman's original screenplay. 1989

WITNESS - In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, a young Amish boy witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. John Book (Harrison Ford), the police detective investigating the murder, discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several officials in his department. Book flees Philadelphia to the Amish community where the boy lives with his widowed mother (Kelly McGillis). Book slowly assimilates himself into the Amish community, falling in love with the boy's mother in the process. Eventually, the corrupt police track Book down, and he is forced to confront them, while protecting the boy and his mother. Witness is as much a love story as it is a thriller, and the film is very successful at operating on both levels, due to Ford's wonderful, textured performance and Weir's assured direction. Furthermore, Witness is one of the rare movies to accurately evoke the Amish lifestyle without being condescending, making a terrific film all the more rich and exciting. 1985

THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY - Mel Gibson once again proves there's more to his mystique than "Mad Max" in this political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own good, he is brought back to earth by his "conscience," photographer Billy Swan (played in male drag by diminutive actress Linda Hunt, who won an Academy Award for her performance). As all of Jakarta sinks into disarray, Hamilton pursues a romance with British attache Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver). 1982