Beautiful Dreamers

The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.

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.

• Release date
• June 5, 1990
• Runtime
• 105 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• 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

D

David Gardner Dr. Lett Tom McCamus Leonard Thomas

A

Albert Schultz Dr. John Burgys