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Dread Poets' Society

19920.0 / 1030 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

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

Crew

Andy Wilson

Andy Wilson

Director

David Stafford

David Stafford

Writer

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

Writer

Estelle Daniel

Estelle Daniel

Producer