Overview
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Cast
- Philip Anglim as Lord Byron
- Alice Krige as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Eric Stoltz as Percy Shelley
- Alex Winter as Dr. John William Polidori
- Laura Dern as Claire Clairmont
- Peter Berling as Maurice
- Donald Hodson as Rushton
- Giusto Lo Pipero as Berger
- Antoinette McLain as Elise
- Terry Richards as Fletcher