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Dread Poets' Society
Dread Poets' Society
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Dread Poets' Society

1992
30m
Drama
TV Movie

Status

Released

Release

1992

Runtime

30m

Storyline

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!

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
30m
Sep 23, 1992
Languages
English
Director
Andy Wilson
Production
BBC
BBC
Production Countries
United Kingdom

Top Cast

6 Cast Members

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

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