
Beautiful Dreamers
1990•105 min•
★5.2
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.
Cast & Crew

Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke

Rip Torn
Walt Whitman

Wendel Meldrum
Jessie Bucke

Sheila McCarthy
Molly Jessop

Colin Fox
Rev. Haines

David Gardner
Dr. Lett

Tom McCamus
Leonard Thomas

Albert Schultz
Dr. John Burgys

J. Winston Carroll
Henderson

Barbara Gordon
Agatha Haines

DirectorJohn Kent Harrison
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