Beautiful Dreamers
- Original title
- Beautiful Dreamers
- Year
- 1990
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
- Canada
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Colm Feore
- Rip Torn
- Wendel Meldrum
- Sheila McCarthy
- Colin Fox
- David Gardner
- Tom McCamus
- Barbara Gordon
- Marsha Moreau
- Albert Schultz
- Angelo Rizacos
- Gerry Quigley
- Roger Clown
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
Office National du Film du Canada (ONF). Distributor: Hemdale- Genre
- Drama | Based on a true story
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Awards
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1991: Genie Awards (Canada): 4 nominations
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