Dread Poets' Society (1992)
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!
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Andy Wilson
Writing:
- David Stafford
- Benjamin Zephaniah
Stars:
Release Date: 1992-09-23
- Country: GB
- Language: English
- Runtime: 30
Self
Derek
Mary Shelley
Shelley
Byron
Keats