Beautiful Dreamers

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

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Cast

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

Marsha Moreau

Birdie Bucke

Roland Hewgill

Timothy Pardee

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