Released:
1990-06-05

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.

Director:
John Kent Harrison

Runtime:
1h 45min

Genre:
Drama

• 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