Beautiful Dreamers
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1990-06-05
Runtime: 105 mins
Director: John Kent Harrison
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama
Original title: Beautiful Dreamers
Production Companies: ONF | NFB
Production Countries: Canada
Cast
Colm Feore
Rip Torn
Wendel Meldrum
Sheila McCarthy
Colin Fox
David Gardner
Tom McCamus
Albert Schultz
J. Winston Carroll
Barbara Gordon
Marsha Moreau
Roland Hewgill
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