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Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers

1990

5.2

Categories:

  • Drama

Overview:

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.

John Kent Harrison

Director, Screenplay

Cast:

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  • 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
  • David Gardner

    David Gardner

    Dr. Lett