Beautiful Dreamers

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{{Infobox film

| name = Beautiful Dreamers

| image =

| caption =

| director = John Kent Harrison

| writer = John Kent Harrison

| narrator =

| starring = Colm Feore
Rip Torn
Wendel Meldrum
Sheila McCarthy

| music = Lawrence Shragge

| cinematography = François Protat

| editing = Ron Wisman

| studio =

| distributor = C/FP Distribution

| released = {{Film date|1992|06|15}}

| runtime = 105 mins.

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

| gross = C$320,000 (Canada){{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=November 19, 1990|page=56|title=Canadian Films At Home}}

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Beautiful Dreamers is a 1990 Canadian film directed by John Kent Harrison. It stars Colm Feore and Rip Torn.{{Cite web |url=http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/beautiful-dreamers-v4511 |title=Beautiful Dreamers - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie |access-date=2011-11-05 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729164649/http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/beautiful-dreamers-v4511 |archive-date=2012-07-29 |url-status=dead }} It was nominated for four Genie Awards in 1991.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101413/awards|title=Beautiful Dreamers|publisher=|via=www.imdb.com}}

Synopsis

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.{{Cite web|url=https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/bucke/biography/anc.00247.html|title = Biography of Richard Maurice Bucke - the Walt Whitman Archive}}

Cast

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