Beautiful Dreamers The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.

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.

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Drama
Release Date

Jun 05, 1990

Duration: 1h 45 min

Popularity: 0.3139
5 votes
Directed by

John Kent Harrison

Screenplay by

John Kent Harrison

Productions

ONF | NFB (CA)

Budget

Revenue: NA