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The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.Read moreLess
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
The story
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
Cast & crew
Colm FeoreDr. Maurice Bucke
Rip TornWalt Whitman
Wendel MeldrumJessie Bucke
Sheila McCarthyMolly Jessop
Colin FoxRev. Haines
Tom McCamusLeonard Thomas
Albert SchultzDr. John Burgys
Barbara GordonAgatha Haines
Roland HewgillTimothy PardeeExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- François Protat
- Director
- John Kent Harrison
- Screenplay
- John Kent Harrison