Beautiful Dreamers
Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers

1990-06-05 | 105 min

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.

Genres

Drama

Cast

Colm Feore

Colm Feore

Rip Torn

Rip Torn

Wendel Meldrum

Wendel Meldrum

Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy

Colin Fox

Colin Fox

David Gardner

David Gardner

Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus

Albert Schultz

Albert Schultz

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