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Beautiful Dreamers
1990, Jun 05
1h 45m
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.
Directed by
John Kent Harrison
Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke
Rip Torn
Walt Whitman
Barbara Gordon
Agatha Haines
Sheila McCarthy
Molly Jessop
Tom McCamus
Leonard Thomas
Colin Fox
Rev. Haines
Wendel Meldrum
Jessie Bucke
Roland Hewgill
Timothy Pardee
David Gardner
Dr. Lett
Albert Schultz
Dr. John Burgys
J. Winston Carroll
Henderson
Marsha Moreau
Birdie Bucke
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