Beautiful Dreamers

Name: Beautiful Dreamers
Director: John Kent Harrison
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-06-05
Duration: 105 min
Cast: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox

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1990 · 105 min · Drama · TMDB 5.0/10

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.

Directed by John Kent Harrison

Cast

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