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Beautiful Dreamers

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Beautiful Dreamers
Directed byJohn Kent Harrison
Written byJohn Kent Harrison
StarringColm Feore
Rip Torn
Wendel Meldrum
Sheila McCarthy
CinematographyFrançois Protat
Edited byRon Wisman
Music byLawrence Shragge
Distributed byC/FP Distribution
Release date
  • June 15, 1992 (1992-06-15)
Running time
105 mins.
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Box officeC$320,000 (Canada)[1]

Beautiful Dreamers is a 1990 Canadian film directed by John Kent Harrison. It stars Colm Feore and Rip Torn.[2] It was nominated for four Genie Awards in 1991.[3]

Synopsis

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Rip Torn is the American poet Walt Whitman. The setting is a 19th-century Canadian institution for the mentally retarded. A compassionate London, Ontario, doctor named Richard Bucke (Colm Feore) defies his superiors by treating his patients as human beings rather than animals. When Whitman champions his cause, the doctor is ostracized by those who fear the poet's reputation as a freethinking radical. Based on a true incident – Whitman spent the summer with Dr. Bucke in 1880.[4]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Canadian Films At Home". Variety. November 19, 1990. p. 56.
  2. ^ "Beautiful Dreamers - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
  3. ^ "Beautiful Dreamers" – via www.imdb.com.
  4. ^ "Biography of Richard Maurice Bucke - the Walt Whitman Archive".
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