Beautiful Dreamers
(1990)

Released: 1990-06-05

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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

as Dr. Maurice Bucke

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Rip Torn

as Walt Whitman

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Wendel Meldrum

as Jessie Bucke

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Sheila McCarthy

as Molly Jessop

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Colin Fox

as Rev. Haines

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Tom McCamus

as Leonard Thomas

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Albert Schultz

as Dr. John Burgys

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Barbara Gordon

as Agatha Haines

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Marsha Moreau

as Birdie Bucke

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