Beautiful Dreamers

Directed by John Kent Harrison
1990    1h 45m    PG-13
Drama
6.933%
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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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Cast of Beautiful Dreamers
  • Colm FeoreDr. Maurice Bucke
  • Rip TornWalt Whitman
  • Wendel MeldrumJessie Bucke
  • Sheila McCarthyMolly Jessop
  • Colin FoxRev. Haines
  • David GardnerDr. Lett
  • Tom McCamusLeonard Thomas
  • Albert SchultzDr. John Burgys
  • J. Winston CarrollHenderson
  • Barbara GordonAgatha Haines
  • Marsha MoreauBirdie Bucke
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