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Cast

Colm Feore

Colm Feore

Dr. Maurice Bucke

Rip Torn

Rip Torn

Walt Whitman

Wendel Meldrum

Wendel Meldrum

Jessie Bucke

Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy

Molly Jessop

Colin Fox

Colin Fox

Rev. Haines

David Gardner

David Gardner

Dr. Lett

Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus

Leonard Thomas

Albert Schultz

Albert Schultz

Dr. John Burgys

J. Winston Carroll

J. Winston Carroll

Henderson

Barbara Gordon

Barbara Gordon

Agatha Haines

Marsha Moreau

Marsha Moreau

Birdie Bucke

Roland Hewgill

Roland Hewgill

Timothy Pardee

Crew

François Protat

François Protat

Director of Photography

John Kent Harrison

John Kent Harrison

Director

Lawrence Shragge

Lawrence Shragge

Music

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Poem

John Kent Harrison

John Kent Harrison

Screenplay

Seamus Flannery

Seamus Flannery

Production Design

Charles Bowers

Charles Bowers

Sound Editor

Ellen Adams

Ellen Adams

Dialogue Editor

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Beautiful Dreamers

19905.2 / 10105 min
Drama

Overview

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

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.