Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke
Beautiful Dreamers
“The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.”
1990
1h 45m
Director: John Kent Harrison
Writer: John Kent Harrison
Overview
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.
Cast
12 people
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