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Beautiful Dreamers

5.2 105 mins Drama   1990
ONF | NFB  
Director(s): 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.

Casts of Beautiful Dreamers

Colm Feore

as Dr. Maurice Bucke

Rip Torn

as Walt Whitman

Wendel Meldrum

as Jessie Bucke

Sheila McCarthy

as Molly Jessop

Colin Fox

as Rev. Haines

David Gardner

as Dr. Lett

Tom McCamus

as Leonard Thomas

Albert Schultz

as Dr. John Burgys

J. Winston Carroll

as Henderson

Barbara Gordon

as Agatha Haines

Marsha Moreau

as Birdie Bucke

Roland Hewgill

as Timothy Pardee

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