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Film / 1990
Beautiful Dreamers
Directed by
John Kent Harrison
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Colm FeoreDr. Maurice Bucke
Rip TornWalt Whitman
Wendel MeldrumJessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthyMolly Jessop
Colin FoxRev. Haines
David GardnerDr. Lett
Tom McCamusLeonard Thomas
Albert SchultzDr. John Burgys
J. Winston CarrollHenderson
Barbara GordonAgatha Haines
Marsha MoreauBirdie Bucke
Roland HewgillTimothy Pardee
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