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.
Release Date: 1990-06-05
Drama
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Casts

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
Tom McCamus
as Leonard Thomas
Barbara Gordon
as Agatha Haines
Roland Hewgill
as Timothy Pardee

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