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Dread Poets' Society (1992)
Directed by Andy Wilson
Drama, TV Movie · 30m
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
Timothy Spall
Emma Fielding
Alan Cumming
Alex Jennings
Dexter Fletcher
Crew
- Director
- Andy Wilson
- Writer
- David Stafford, Benjamin Zephaniah
- Producer
- Estelle Daniel
Details
- Release date
- 1992-09-23
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC