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.

Genre: Drama

Stars: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox, David Gardner

Crew: François Protat (Director of Photography), John Kent Harrison (Director), Walt Whitman (Poem), Seamus Flannery (Production Design), John Kent Harrison (Screenplay), Lawrence Shragge (Music)

Country: Canada

Language: English

Studio: ONF | NFB

Runtime: 105 minutes

Quality: HD

Released: Jun 05, 1990

IMDb: 5.8

Keywords:poet, insane asylum, walt whitman, 1880s, inspired by true events, american poets

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