Name: BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS Starring Rip Torn as Walt Whitman
Start: 2019-03-24T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1

BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS Starring Rip Torn as Walt Whitman

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Sun, Mar 24, 2019 11:00 AM

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Walt Whitman 200th Birthday Celebration

BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS
Starring Rip Torn as Walt Whitman

Sunday, March 24 at 11 am | Admission free with RSVP online (Click on "Buy Tickets" above to RSVP for your FREE Tickets)
Discussion with Cynthia Shor, Executive Director, Walt Whitman Birthplace
Brunch Food will be available for sale

Rip Torn stars as Walt Whitman in this entertaining portrait of the legendary poet’s friendship and support for progressive doctor Maurice Bucks, who scandalized the medical establishment by treating his developmentally challenged patients as human beings.

Beautiful Dreamers tells the story of the friendship between Maurice Bucke, a Canadian doctor and superintendent of the asylum in London Ontario, and the great American poet Walt Whitman (Rip Torn). Whitman, whose own brother was mentally disabled, admired Bucke’s progressive ideas about care of the mentally ill. With Whitman’s help, Bucke replaced the asylum’s coercive methods of care with "moral treatments" such as exercise, music, and conversation, much to the chagrin of the mainstream medical establishment. (Canada, 1992, 105 Mins., English | Dir. John Kent Harrison)

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BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS Starring Rip Torn as Walt Whitman

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