
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