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Beautiful Dreamers
starring: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox
directed by: John Kent Harrison

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302517132
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6302517133
Label: Hemdale Home Video I
Manufacturer: Hemdale Home Video I
Publication Date: 1993-09
Publisher: Hemdale Home Video I
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Hemdale Home Video I
Theatrical Release Date: June 05, 1992
Sales Rank: 4973

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- BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS: a film with a beating heart and a vibrant conscience!
Who, apart from some psychologists and health care providers even know who Richard Maurice Bucke is????

Well, thank God that there are some film directors that eschew big time glitz to bring a work of pure art and labour of love to the screen. BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS is the based-on-fact story of Maurice Bucke, whose enduring friendship with famed poet Walt Whitman influenced him greatly in the field of progressive health care. Bucke believed that humane contact and a normalization of routines in mental asylums was absolutely necessary to the rehabilitation and care of the unfortunate.Bucke is often recognized as "the father of occupational therapy". Bucke was an avid reader of poetry and read Whitman's banned (in Canada) LEAVES OF GRASS which lead him to meeting the famed ... Read More

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- Humane Treatment for Humans
This film fictionalizes the relationship between Walt Whitman and Dr. Richard Bucke, the adminstrator of an asylum for the mentally ill in London, Ontario. The two men first meet in Philadelphia at a conference where Bucke is to deliver a speech on his new ideas for the treatment of mental illness. Distressed by the intolerant, even sadistic attitude of his colleagues, Bucke angrily declines to give his speech and storms out. Whitman, impressed by the man's passion seeks his advice on the treatment of his mentally disturbed brother, James. Bucke, in turn, is struck by Whitman's loving care of his brother and his insistence on keeping him at home rather than in an institution. Bucke then invites his new friend to return with him to Canada to meet his wife and their young daughter.
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- Beautiful Dreamers
This is a lovely life-affirming movie. It has everything: lovely screnery, poetry and great characters who are at once vulnerable, intelligent and courageous. It is the story of love between a husband and wife, and the dedication of a doctor to his patients under difficult circumstances. There is a triumph of goodness here that makes this movie very special.

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- an on-screen poem
sometimes i question if all films aren't just a form of escapism & a sad distraction from life... then my very essence swells & soars when encountering such beautiful & inspirational works as this! go ahead & rent it the first time, i can't imagine you won't be checking back here hoping to find a copy of your own to cherish & share with others.

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- beautiful dreamers
what a great movie. not only does it portray the subjugation and liberation of the female spirit but also a love and vitality for life that bridges traditions, systems and prejudices. great movie. i have it on laser disc and would like to get it on dvd and video.

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