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Beautiful Dreamers
Beautiful Dreamers

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Beautiful Dreamers

NR·1990·105m

Summary

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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Director, Screenplay

John Kent Harrison

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Released

Original Language:

English

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Keywords

poet
insane asylum
walt whitman
1880s
american poets