Beautiful Dreamers

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

Beautiful Dreamers

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5/10

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.

Colm Feore

Rip Torn

Wendel Meldrum

Sheila McCarthy

Colin Fox

David Gardner

Tom McCamus

Albert Schultz

J. Winston Carroll

Barbara Gordon

Marsha Moreau

Roland Hewgill