
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