Dread Poets' Society (1992)
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!
- Date of release
- 1992-09-23
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Andy Wilson
Casting
- Benjamin Zephaniah — Self
- Timothy Spall — Derek
- Emma Fielding — Mary Shelley
- Alan Cumming — Shelley
- Alex Jennings — Byron
- Dexter Fletcher — Keats
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