Beautiful dreamers

Feore, Colm. (Added Author). Fox, Colin. (Added Author). Harrison, John Kent. (Added Author). McCarthy, Sheila. (Added Author). Torn, Rip, 1931- (Added Author). Alliance Films, (provider.). Criterion-on-Demand (Firm), (film distributor.). Colm Feore, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox and Rip Torn. (Cast).

Summary: Maurice Bucke is a young Canadian physician who runs the London Insane Asylum. After a chance meeting with poet Walt Whitman, both men discover their mutual outrage for current treatment of the mentally ill. Bucke persuades Whitman to visit his asylum in order to try Whitman's theory of human compassion on the asylum's inmates. However, Bucke runs into opposition from the local townspeople, scandalized by Whitman's radical reputation. Based on Whitman's visit to Canada in 1880.

Record details

Physical Description: remote
1 streaming video file (107 min.) : digital, sound, color
Publisher: Montreal : Alliance Films Inc., [2013]
Distributor: [Vaughan, Ontario] : Criterion Pictures, [date of distribution not identified]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally distributed as a motion picture by Alliance Films Inc., 1990.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to subscribers.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Music composed by Lawrence Shragge ; edited by Ron Wisman ; executive producer, Stephen J. Roth.
Participant or Performer Note:	Colm Feore, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox and Rip Torn.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: PG-13.
System Details Note:	Content available as a streaming video.
Source of Description Note:	Title from distributor's web site (viewed February 25, 2015).