Beautiful Dreamers

(1990)

★ 5 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1990

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: Canada

Director: John Kent Harrison

Cast: Колм Фиори, Рип Торн, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Колин Фокс, David Gardner, Tom McCamus, Albert Schultz, Дж. Уинстон Кэрролл, Барбара Гордон

Plot

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.