Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers (1990)

The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.

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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  • Release Date: 1990-06-05
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Director: John Kent Harrison

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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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