Dread Poets' Society

Name: Dread Poets' Society
Director: Andy Wilson
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1992-09-23
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Benjamin Zephaniah, Timothy Spall, Emma Fielding, Alan Cumming, Alex Jennings

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1992 · 30 min · Drama · TV Movie

Overview

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!

Directed by Andy Wilson

Cast

Benjamin Zephaniah — Self
Timothy Spall — Derek
Emma Fielding — Mary Shelley
Alan Cumming — Shelley
Alex Jennings — Byron