Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers

105 mins | Drama | June 5, 1990

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.

Beautiful Dreamers

105 mins | Drama | June 5, 1990

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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers
Original title Beautiful Dreamers
Directors John Kent Harrison
Writers John Kent Harrison

Cast

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