Beautiful Dreamers
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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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David Gardner
as Dr. Lett
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Tom McCamus
as Leonard Thomas
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Albert Schultz
as Dr. John Burgys
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J. Winston Carroll
as Henderson
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Barbara Gordon
as Agatha Haines
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