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Beautiful Dreamers

"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

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Colm Feore

as Dr. Maurice Bucke

9626

Rip Torn

as Walt Whitman

155860

Wendel Meldrum

as Jessie Bucke

29384

Sheila McCarthy

as Molly Jessop

137161

Colin Fox

as Rev. Haines

44153

David Gardner

as Dr. Lett

64712

Tom McCamus

as Leonard Thomas

184488

Albert Schultz

as Dr. John Burgys

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J. Winston Carroll

as Henderson

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Barbara Gordon

as Agatha Haines

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Marsha Moreau

as Birdie Bucke

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Roland Hewgill

as Timothy Pardee

Crew

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François Protat

Director of Photography

96001

John Kent Harrison

Director

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Walt Whitman

Poem

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Seamus Flannery

Production Design

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John Kent Harrison

Screenplay

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Lawrence Shragge

Music

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Charles Bowers

Sound Editor

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Ellen Adams

Dialogue Editor