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The World Changes Some People. Some People Change The World.Plot:
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his... more | add synopsisAwards:
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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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Please note that I haven't seen the film since I discovered it in 2007, and my town is smaller and doesn't carry it. However, I really want to say something about it. I'm actually doing research for university on the title character Richard Maurice Bucke and would like to point out that the person they based the main character on was in reality completely different!!! Hollywood's ideas of people and artistic license granted, the real Dr. Bucke totally endorsed hysterectomies to cure insanity in women, and would never have practiced anything as liberal as represented in the film. I think it's laughable to see various film critics who write for legitimate newspapers who say this film has some historical basis! The only actual fact I can see is the friendship between Dr. Bucke and Walt Whitman. Please don't waste your time on a film with such a disregard to the horror that real women experienced at the hands of this doctor who has now been glorified by the film industry.