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Now Playing
Chloe Dao´s Favorite Film: Dead Poets Society
Introduced by Chloe Dao
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Directed by Peter Weir
USA, 1989
Color
128 Minutes
Show Times:
Mon., Jan. 28 7:00 PM
At a boys prep school in 1959 New England, an unconventional English teacher (Robin Williams) fuels his students´ creativity with the joys of iambic pentameter while the school prefers to downplay the freethinking curriculum. Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard costar.
"This movie changed my life. Dead Poets Society ignited a spark in me that gave me courage to follow my dream. It has been 16 years since I first saw this movie but the motto of the movie ´Got to do more, got to see more, got to be more´ is the motto I still live by today." —Chloe Dao
Chloe Dao´s appearance has been arranged in collaboration with My Houston (www.visitmyhouston.com).
Fashion designer Chloe Dao emigrated from Laos in 1979 with her parents and siblings. In 2000 she opened Lot 8 Boutique, named after the eight Dao sisters, and in 2006 she was chosen as the winner of Bravo´s Project Runway. Lot 8 now offers not only women´s clothing but also a hair salon. Visit www.lot8online.com for details.
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