


Rip Torn

Colm Feore

Sheila McCarthy

Colin Fox

Wendel Meldrum

Tom McCamus
David Gardner
Albert Schultz
J. Winston Carroll

Barbara Gordon
John Kent Harrison

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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