Dread Poets' Society

09/23/1992

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0hr 30min

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Drama

,TV Movie

STORY

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!

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Timothy Spall
  • Emma Fielding
  • Alan Cumming
  • Alex Jennings

    Director

  • Andy Wilson

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English