Beautiful Dreamers

06/05/1990

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1hr 45min

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Drama

The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Colm Feore
  • Rip Torn
  • Wendel Meldrum
  • Sheila McCarthy
  • Colin Fox

    Directors

  • John Kent Harrison
  • Charles Bowers

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ONF | NFB

    Production Countries

  • Canada

LANGUAGES

  • English