American Experience: Walt Whitman

Regular airtime: various (PBS)

Cast: Betsy Erkkila, Ed Folsom, Allan Gurganus, Karen Karbiener, Kenneth Price, David Reynolds

US release date: 14 April 2008

[15 April 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Expecting the Main Things From You

Like its subject, Mark Zwonitzer's Walt Whitman is grand and particular.

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.Why my parents said people on **largeloves..com** are all liers?I do not believe it!!.

Comment by sara — April 15, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

With the exception of “Drum Taps” I am not a big Whitman fan but this film—yes, sometimes overdone as Ms. Fuchs points out—led me to at least an appreciation of Whitman that I never had before.

Comment by Rodger Jacobs from Las Vegas, NV — April 23, 2008 @ 4:57 pm

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