Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers (1990)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1990-06-05
  • User Rating: 5.2/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Director: John Kent Harrison
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Summary

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.

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  • Colm Feore

    as Dr. Maurice Bucke

  • Rip Torn

    as Walt Whitman

  • Wendel Meldrum

    as Jessie Bucke

  • Sheila McCarthy

    as Molly Jessop

  • Colin Fox

    as Rev. Haines

  • David Gardner

    as Dr. Lett

  • Tom McCamus

    as Leonard Thomas

  • Albert Schultz

    as Dr. John Burgys

  • J. Winston Carroll

    as Henderson

  • Barbara Gordon

    as Agatha Haines

  • Marsha Moreau

    as Birdie Bucke
Directing John Kent Harrison Director
Crew Walt Whitman Poem
Art Seamus Flannery Production Design
Sound Lawrence Shragge Music
Writing John Kent Harrison Screenplay
Camera François Protat Director of Photography

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