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Dread Poets' Society

Dread Poets' Society

1992

N/R

Categories:

  • Drama
  • TV Movie

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!

Andy Wilson

Director

Estelle Daniel

Producer

Benjamin Zephaniah

Writer

David Stafford

Writer

Cast:

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  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    Benjamin Zephaniah

    Self
  • Timothy Spall

    Timothy Spall

    Derek
  • Emma Fielding

    Emma Fielding

    Mary Shelley
  • Alan Cumming

    Alan Cumming

    Shelley
  • Alex Jennings

    Alex Jennings

    Byron
  • Dexter Fletcher

    Dexter Fletcher

    Keats