Release Date
05 Jun, 1990
Runtime
01:45: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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.
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Actors
Colm Feore
Rip Torn
Wendel Meldrum
Sheila McCarthy
Colin Fox
Tom McCamus
Barbara Gordon
Roland Hewgill
Crew
Walt Whitman
