Beautiful Dreamers
movie
The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
Released June 05, 1990
Genres:
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
Colm Feore
as
Dr. Maurice Bucke
Rip Torn
as
Walt Whitman
Wendel Meldrum
as
Jessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthy
as
Molly Jessop
Colin Fox
as
Rev. Haines
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David Gardner
as
Dr. Lett
Tom McCamus
as
Leonard Thomas
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Albert Schultz
as
Dr. John Burgys
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J. Winston Carroll
as
Henderson
Barbara Gordon
as
Agatha Haines
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Marsha Moreau
as
Birdie Bucke
Roland Hewgill
as
Timothy Pardee
Crew
François Protat
as
Director of Photography
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John Kent Harrison
as
Director
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Lawrence Shragge
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Music
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John Kent Harrison
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Screenplay
Walt Whitman
as
Poem
Seamus Flannery
as
Production Design
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Charles Bowers
as
Sound Editor
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Ellen Adams
as
Dialogue Editor
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Terry Burke
as
Sound Effects
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Tony Currie
as
Dialogue Editor