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.

Starring:

Albert Schultz, Angelo Rizacos, Barbara Gordon, Bernard Behrens, Bill Tarling, Bob Clout, Colin Fox, Colm Feore, David Gardner, Gerry Quigley, J Winston Carroll, Jeff Braunstein, Jefferson Mappin, JR Zimmerman, Marsha Moreau, Peter Blais, RD Reid, Rip Torn, Roger Clown, Roland Hewgill, Sheila McCarthy, Tim MacMenamin, Tom McCamus, Wendel Meldrum

Genre:

Drama