Film
Dread Poets' Society
1992 · 30m · Drama · TV Movie
- IMDb
- 6.9
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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!
Cast
Benjamin Zephaniah
Self
Timothy Spall
Derek
Emma Fielding
Mary Shelley
Alan Cumming
Shelley
Alex Jennings
Byron
Dexter Fletcher
Keats
Crew
- Andy WilsonDirector
- Benjamin ZephaniahWriter
- David StaffordWriter
- Estelle DanielProducer
Details
- Release date
- September 23, 1992
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
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