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Beautiful Dreamers

52% | Jun 05, 1990 | Drama

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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John Kent Harrison
Director
Walt Whitman
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Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke
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Rip Torn
Walt Whitman
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Wendel Meldrum
Jessie Bucke
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Sheila McCarthy
Molly Jessop
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Colin Fox
Rev. Haines

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