Beautiful Dreamers

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

• Rated 5.0 out of 10
• Movie
• 1990
• 1h 45m
• 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.

Director

John Kent Harrison

Starring

Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy