Movie

Dread Poets' Society

199230mDramaTV 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!

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Cast

Alan Cumming
as Shelley

Timothy Spall
as Derek

Alex Jennings
as Byron

Dexter Fletcher
as Keats

Emma Fielding
as Mary Shelley

Benjamin Zephaniah
as Self