Dread Poets' Society

September. 23,1992      
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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!

Benjamin Zephaniah as  Self
Timothy Spall as  Derek
Emma Fielding as  Mary Shelley
Alan Cumming as  Shelley
Alex Jennings as  Byron
Dexter Fletcher as  Keats