Beautiful Dreamers
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.
Release date
Jun 5, 1990
Rating
5.2 / 10
Runtime
1 hours 45 minutes
Genres
Cast
- Colm Feore
- Rip Torn
- Wendel Meldrum
- Sheila McCarthy
- Colin Fox
- David GardnerNo picture available
- Tom McCamus
- Albert SchultzNo picture available
- J. Winston CarrollNo picture available
- Barbara Gordon
- Marsha MoreauNo picture available
- Roland Hewgill
Crew
- François Protat
- John Kent HarrisonNo picture available
- Lawrence ShraggeNo picture available
- John Kent HarrisonNo picture available
- Walt Whitman
- Seamus Flannery
- Charles BowersNo picture available
- Ellen AdamsNo picture available
- Terry BurkeNo picture available
- Tony CurrieNo picture available
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