Beautiful Dreamers
Director: John Kent Harrison
Cast: Albert Schultz, Colin Fox, Colm Feore, David Gardner, Rip Torn, Sheila McCarthy, Tom McCamus, Wendel Meldrum
Synopsis:
Cast: Albert Schultz, Colin Fox, Colm Feore, David Gardner, Rip Torn, Sheila McCarthy, Tom McCamus, Wendel Meldrum
Synopsis:
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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Stephen Holden
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