Beautiful Dreamers

Name: Beautiful Dreamers
Genre: Drama
Released: 05 Jun 1990
Rating: 5.20
Cast: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox

The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World. 1990-06-05 Canada 105 minutes.

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Drama poet insane asylum 19th century walt whitman american poets

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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.

Year 1990

Studio ONF | NFB

Director John Kent Harrison

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

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Language English