Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
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.
- Date of release
- 1990-06-05
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- John Kent Harrison
Casting
- 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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