Beautiful Dreamers
Release Date: 1990-06-05
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.
Rating: 5.2 / 10
Cast
Colm Feore
as Dr. Maurice Bucke
Rip Torn
as Walt Whitman
Wendel Meldrum
as Jessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthy
as Molly Jessop
Colin Fox
as Rev. Haines
Crew
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François Protat - Director of Photography
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John Kent Harrison - Director
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Walt Whitman - Poem
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Seamus Flannery - Production Design
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John Kent Harrison - Screenplay
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