Beautiful Dreamers (5.0)

Movie · 1990 · 1 h 45 min · 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.

Directed by: John Kent Harrison

Starring Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox, David Gardner, Tom McCamus, Albert Schultz, J. Winston Carroll, Barbara Gordon

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