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Beautiful Dreamers (1990)

Beautiful Dreamers (1990)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1990, June 5
Directors: John Kent Harrison
Countries: Canada
Production: ONF | NFB
Cast: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Sheila McCarthy, J. Winston Carroll, Tom McCamus, Barbara Gordon, Wendel Meldrum, Colin Fox, Albert Schultz, David Gardner, Marsha Moreau, Roland Hewgill

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

19th century insane asylum poet walt whitman american poets