The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
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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as Dr. Maurice Bucke
AliveBorn: August 22, 1958
Age: 68
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
as Walt Whitman
DeceasedBorn: February 6, 1931
Died: July 9, 2019
Age at death: 88
as Jessie Bucke
DeceasedBorn: July 21, 1954
Died: January 27, 2021
Age at death: 66
as Molly Jessop
AliveBorn: January 1, 1956
Age: 70
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
as Rev. Haines
DeceasedBorn: November 20, 1938
Died: April 5, 2025
Age at death: 86
as Dr. Lett
DeceasedBorn: May 4, 1928
Died: February 8, 2020
Age at death: 91
as Leonard Thomas
AliveBorn: July 25, 1955
Age: 71
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
as Dr. John Burgys
AliveBorn: July 30, 1963
Age: 63
as Henderson
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Agatha Haines
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Birdie Bucke
AliveBorn: January 26, 1977
Age: 49
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
as Timothy Pardee
DeceasedBorn: February 11, 1929
Died: November 9, 1998
Age at death: 69