Beautiful Dreamers
05/06/1990
2h



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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.
Cast


Colm Feore
Dr. Maurice Bucke


Rip Torn
Walt Whitman


Wendel Meldrum
Jessie Bucke


Sheila McCarthy
Molly Jessop


Colin Fox
Rev. Haines
David Gardner
Dr. Lett


Tom McCamus
Leonard Thomas
Albert Schultz
Dr. John Burgys
J. Winston Carroll
Henderson


Barbara Gordon
Agatha Haines
Marsha Moreau
Birdie Bucke


Roland Hewgill
Timothy Pardee
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