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Beautiful Dreamers
Release Date: Jun 05, 1990
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Genres: Drama

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.

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Colm Feore | Dr. Maurice Bucke
Rip Torn | Walt Whitman
Wendel Meldrum | Jessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthy | Molly Jessop
Colin Fox | Rev. Haines
David Gardner | Dr. Lett
Featured Crew
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François Protat | Director of Photography
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John Kent Harrison | Director
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Lawrence Shragge | Music
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John Kent Harrison | Screenplay
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Walt Whitman | Poem
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Seamus Flannery | Production Design