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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox, David Gardner
Crew: John Kent Harrison (Director), Walt Whitman (Poem), Seamus Flannery (Production Design), Lawrence Shragge (Music), John Kent Harrison (Screenplay), François Protat (Director of Photography)
Country: Canada
Language: English
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Runtime: 105 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 05, 1990
IMDb: 5.8
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