Film · Drama
Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
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.
- Director
- John Kent Harrison
- Writers
- John Kent Harrison
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 5, 1990
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
