Beautiful Dreamers Poster

Beautiful Dreamers

52.00% | June 5, 1990 | Drama

When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.

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John Kent Harrison
Director
John Kent Harrison
Screenplay
Walt Whitman
Poem

Cast

Colm Feore
Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke
Rip Torn
Rip Torn
Walt Whitman
Wendel Meldrum
Wendel Meldrum
Jessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthy
Sheila McCarthy
Molly Jessop
Colin Fox
Colin Fox
Rev. Haines

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