Beautiful Dreamers

Release Date: 1990-06-05

Runtime: 105

Languages: English

Rating: 5.2

Votes: 5

Genres: Drama

Director: John Kent Harrison

Description: 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-ga...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.Read More

Production Companies:

ONF | NFB