Dread Poets' Society
MovieTitle | Dread Poets' Society |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Sep 23, 1992 |
Genre | Drama, TV Movie |
Director | Andy Wilson |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | BBC |
Run time | 30 min. |
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!