Beautiful Dreamers(1990)
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.
Movie: Beautiful Dreamers
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Dr. Maurice Bucke
Walt Whitman
Jessie Bucke
Molly Jessop
Rev. Haines
Leonard Thomas
Agatha Haines
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