Overview
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
- Colm Feore as Dr. Maurice Bucke
- Rip Torn as Walt Whitman
- Wendel Meldrum as Jessie Bucke
- Sheila McCarthy as Molly Jessop
- Colin Fox as Rev. Haines
- David Gardner as Dr. Lett
- Tom McCamus as Leonard Thomas
- Albert Schultz as Dr. John Burgys
- J. Winston Carroll as Henderson
- Barbara Gordon as Agatha Haines