Beautiful Dreamers
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.
Country: CA
Genre: Drama
Release: 1990-06-05
Director: John Kent Harrison
Production: ONF | NFB
Cast: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox
Tagline: The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
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