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Robert Sean Leonard has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dead Poets Society.
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At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Dir. David Shore · With Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Beckinsale
Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.
Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
Shortly after high school student Jeremy Capello goes on a hot date, he finds he can't stand garlic or see his reflection in mirrors.
Dir. Jimmy Huston · With Robert Sean Leonard, Evan Mirand, Leeanne Locken Emberlin

Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Dir. Whit Stillman · With Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.
Dir. Thomas Carter · With Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley

When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
Dir. Roland Suso Richter · With Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo

Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue