Beautiful Dreamers
Directed byJohn Kent Harrison
Directed by
John Kent Harrison
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.
poet
insane asylum
walt whitman
1880s
american poets
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