Dread Poets' Society (movie)
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Andy Wilson
- Production companies: BBC
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Release date: 9/23/1992
- Run time: 30 min.
Movie 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!
