Dread Poets' Society

Dread Poets' Society

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 23, 1992

Runtime

0h 30m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

Original Title

Dread Poets' Society

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Andy Wilson

Description

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!