Dread Poets' Society

Dread Poets' Society (1992)


  • Genre: Drama, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1992-09-23
  • Runtime: 0h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Andy Wilson

Summary

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!

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  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    as Self
  • Timothy Spall

    as Derek
  • Emma Fielding

    as Mary Shelley
  • Alan Cumming

    as Shelley
  • Alex Jennings

    as Byron
  • Dexter Fletcher

    as Keats
Directing Andy Wilson Director
Writing David Stafford Writer
Writing Benjamin Zephaniah Writer
Production Estelle Daniel Producer

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