i find the one and only comment about this movie entirely uninformative and altogether too harsh and so i have decide to write my own . i first saw this movie when it come out and have catch it a few time more since then . first of all let me say that and overall and the thing that this movie get right be what make it worthwhile . it doesn not matter that it have some low budget quirk and other fault . it be worth watch . the idea of base a movie on walt whitman visit a restrictive and narrow mind anglo canadian community in southern ontario and bring people to life be a brilliant mi en scene . the movie be about the kind of humanize catalysis whitman inspire in people . and in that sense it be exactly accurate . the act especially by rip torn ( whitman ) and colm feore a the doctor be very good . the scripting and dialogue be strong and pay proper attention to the more and inflection of the time . overall and what not to like . besides and name another film in which whitman be bring so vividly to life .