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.
as Dr. Maurice Bucke
as Walt Whitman
as Jessie Bucke
as Molly Jessop
as Rev. Haines
as Dr. Lett
as Leonard Thomas
as Dr. John Burgys
as Henderson
as Agatha Haines
as Birdie Bucke
as Timothy Pardee
