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  • Dead Poets Society
  • Dead Poets Society review by albram from Sussex, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars one of my all time top ten films 23 August 2007
    .... You really engage with and feel for the characters. Well up to director Peter Weir's best, on a par with The Truman Show. ...   Read customer review
  • The Truman Show
  • The Truman Show review by from Chester
    Rated - 4.0 stars Engaging and thoughtful comedy 25 April 2005
    ...This is a delightful comedy from Peter Weir. Truman Burbank is the unknowing star of the ultimate reality TV show, everything and everyone around him is fake. We join T...   Read customer review
  • Witness
  • Witness review by Beacon97 from Wales, UK.
    Rated - 4.0 stars Classic Weir 29 July 2004
    ...Harrison Ford has done very few films actually worth watching. Peter Weir's Witness is definitely one of them however. Set amongst the backdrop of Amish life as Ford hide...   Read customer review

Peter Weir - filmography


  • The Way Back on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Colin Farrell,  Dejan Angelov,  Yordan Bikov
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The Way Back is the critically acclaimed new release from renowned director Peter Weir (Master and Commander, The Truman Show), starring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Mark Strong and Saoirse Ronan. Inspired by an incredible true story, this epic film of survival against-the-odds tells ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 11,258 members
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  • The Truman Show on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Ed Harris,  Laura Linney
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 22,707 members
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  • The Truman Show - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Ed Harris,  Laura Linney
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around the world with tremendous success since the day he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists, Truman has no idea that there are cameras in every corner of his world.
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,169 members
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  • Green Card on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Andie MacDowell,  Robert Prosky
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience, they think it's going to be hassle-free. But before they know it, the two opposites are faced with more difficulties than most married couples could ever imagine. And worst yet, they may just be falling in love. Academy Award Nominations: Best (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 8,387 members
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  • Dead Poets Society on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Ethan Hawke,  Robert Sean Leonard
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    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 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 15,429 members
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  • Dead Poets Society - Blu-ray (1989)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Ethan Hawke,  Robert Sean Leonard
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Keating is an eccentric teacher who returns to teach in his childhood school. The message he gives to his students is to experience life for themselves. Consequently, several pupils reintroduce 'Dead Poets Society' of which Keating had been a past member. Secret, late night meetings take place ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 688 members
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  • The Mosquito Coast on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Conrad Roberts,  Andre Gregory
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the novel by Paul Theroux, an inventor disillusioned by the growing bureaucracy of America uproots his family to build a utopia in the jungle of Central America. There he finds new threats to his freedom and peace of mind, with tragic results.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,987 member
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  • Witness on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Timothy Carhart,  Viggo Mortensen,  Ed Crowley
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young Amish boy, visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother, witnesses a murder. When the detective on the case discovers a police cover up, he realizes his, the boy's and the mother's lives are in jeopardy. He hides out in Amish country, living amongst the community and having to abide by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 8,488 members
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  • Gallipoli on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Mark Lee,  Bill Hunter
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The first of two consecutive films to see director Peter Weir team with Mel Gibson (the other being The Year of Living Dangerously), Gallipoli follows two idealistic young friends, Frank (Gibson) and Archy (Mark Lee), who join the Australian army during World War I and fight the doomed Battle of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,139 members
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  • The Plumber (1980)
    Starring: Judy Morris,  Ivar Kants,  Candy Raymond
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A professional married woman is tormented by a plumber who arrives to fix her bathroom pipes, and ends up staying in her apartment for nearly a week. Peter Weir directed this unusual black comedy for Australian television.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 108 members
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  • The Last Wave (1977)
    Starring: Richard Chamberlain,  Olivia Hamnett,  David Gulpilil
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter Weir follows up on his critically acclaimed masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock with this surrealist psychological drama. The film opens with a freak hailstorm in Australia's outback. Cut to David Burton (Richard Chamberlain), a well-to-do Sydney corporate lawyer plagued by visions of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 13 members
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  • Picnic at Hanging Rock on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Rachel Roberts,  Dominic Guard,  Helen Morse
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Situated somewhere between supernatural horror and lush Victorian melodrama, director Peter Weir's lyrical, enigmatic masterpiece is an imaginative tease. The setting is a proper turn-of-the century Australian boarding school for girls, a suffocating institution built on strict moral codes, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,170 members
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  • Picnic at Hanging Rock - Blu-ray (1975)
    Starring: Rachel Roberts,  Dominic Guard,  Helen Morse
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    When a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian finishing school embark on a Valentine's day excursion to an unusual outcropping of volcanic rock, four members of the party are drawn towards the summit, where they experience powerful forces of time, nature, and eroticism, and vanish into thin ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 287 members
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  • The Cars That Ate Paris on DVD (1974)
    Starring: John Meillon,  Terry Camilleri,  Kevin Miles
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Paris townsfolk are determined to make a killing in the spare auto parts business, even if it means forcing unsuspecting travellers off a deadly cliff. Most drivers are dying to help them out, and those who don't wind up as living guinea pigs in grisly brain experiments.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 453 members
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Peter Weir facts

5 most recent films

The Way Back - 3.5 stars
The Way Back - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Master And Commander:The Far Side Of The World - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Master And Commander - The Far Side Of The World - 3.5 stars
The Truman Show - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Truman Show - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Master And Commander:The Far Side Of The World - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dead Poets Society - 3.5 stars
The Truman Show - 3.5 stars
Dead Poets Society - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Last Wave - 3.5 stars
The Plumber - 2.5 stars
The Cars That Ate Paris - 2.5 stars
Green Card - 3.0 stars
The Mosquito Coast - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anne-Louise Lambert - 6 times - show films
Jacki Weaver - 6 times - show films
Helen Morse - 6 times - show films
Rachel Roberts - 6 times - show films
Dominic Guard - 6 times - show films