Beautiful Dreamers
“The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.”
1990•1h 45m•5.0•Released
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.
Director
John Kent Harrison
Writer
John Kent Harrison
Languages
English
Studio
ONF | NFB
Cast
Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke
Rip Torn
Walt Whitman
Wendel Meldrum
Jessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthy
Molly Jessop
Colin Fox
Rev. Haines
David Gardner
Dr. Lett
Tom McCamus
Leonard Thomas
Albert Schultz
Dr. John Burgys
J. Winston Carroll
Henderson
Barbara Gordon
Agatha Haines
Marsha Moreau
Birdie Bucke
Roland Hewgill
Timothy Pardee
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