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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

105 min

Cast:

Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum

Quality:

HD

Director:

John Kent Harrison

Release:

1990

Country:

Canada

Rating:

5.0