
About the film

Beautiful Dreamers
Release Date: June 05, 1990
Year | : | 1990 |
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Director | : | John Kent Harrison |
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Writers | : | John Kent Harrison |
RunTime | : | 105 mins. |
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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