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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Beautiful Dreamers

June 5, 1990

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Dr. Maurice Bucke

Walt Whitman

Jessie Bucke

Molly Jessop

Rev. Haines

Dr. Lett

Leonard Thomas

Dr. John Burgys

Henderson

Agatha Haines

Birdie Bucke

Timothy Pardee

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