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John Kent Harrison (written by)
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5 June 1992 (USA)
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The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.
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When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Colm Feore | ... | Dr. Maurice Bucke |
 | Rip Torn | ... | Walt Whitman |
 | Wendel Meldrum | ... | Jessie Bucke |
| Sheila McCarthy | ... | Molly Jessop |
| Colin Fox | ... | Rev. Haines |
| David Gardner | ... | Dr. Lett |
| Tom McCamus | ... | Leonard Thomas |
| Barbara Gordon | ... | Agatha Haines |
| Marsha Moreau | ... | Birdie Bucke |
| Albert Schultz | ... | Dr. John Burgys |
| Angelo Rizacos | ... | Wallace |
| Gordon Master | ... | John Carver |
| Gerry Quigley | ... | John Freeman |
| Roland Hewgill | ... | Timothy Pardee |
| Roger Clown | ... | Kenneth |
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This movie treats the mentally ill as human beings, and presents a fictionalized but more-or-less historical encounter between the director of a mental institution in Canada and the very controversial Walt Whitman. If you dislike movies that ask you to think AND feel, you will not like this movie. But for anyone with any knowledge of how the mentally ill have been treated throughout history and who have actually known people who are mentally ill, this movie touches something that as human beings we all share. You do not have to be religious at all to recognize the fundamental truth of Matthew 36 - 40 (or at least 39 - 40). Have a look before you jump to any conclusion.