Film
Dread Poets' Society
1992Directed by Andy Wilson
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- Released
- Runtime
- 30m
About Dread Poets' Society
- Drama
- TV Movie
Synopsis
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!
- Director
- Andy Wilson
- Writers
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- David Stafford
