Dread Poets' Society (1992)

0.0/10 • 30 min • 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!

Cast

Benjamin Zephaniah

Self

Timothy Spall

Derek

Emma Fielding

Mary Shelley

Alan Cumming

Shelley

Alex Jennings

Byron

Dexter Fletcher

Keats

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