Dread Poets' Society

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!

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 23, 1992

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Production

BBC

Cast

Alan Cumming,Emma Fielding,Dexter Fletcher,Alex Jennings,Timothy Spall,Benjamin Zephaniah

Director

Andy Wilson

Writer

Benjamin Zephaniah,David Stafford

Producer

Estelle Daniel

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1197619