Awakenings
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1990
2h 0m
PG-13
English
Drama
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Awakenings
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
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Cast
Leonard Lowe
Malcolm Sayer
Dr. Kaufman
Eleanor Costello
Paula
Mrs. Lowe
Peter Ingham
Miriam
Rolando
Frank
Lucy Fishman
Sidney
Lolly
Bert
Rose
Nurse Margaret
Anthony
Dr. Tyler
Dr. Sullivan
Nurse Beth
Frances
Magda
Joseph
Luis
Dottie
Directed By: Penny Marshall
Written By: Steven Zaillian (Screenplay)
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Wuchak
4 years ago
***A ‘hospital film’ with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, based on a true story***
A shy doctor (Robin Williams) gets a job at a Bronx hospital in 1969 where he attends to several patients in a catatonic state after the encephalitis epidemic of 1917–28. He experiments with a new drug tha More
A shy doctor (Robin Williams) gets a job at a Bronx hospital in 1969 where he attends to several patients in a catatonic state after the encephalitis epidemic of 1917–28. He experiments with a new drug tha More
Fr3d1
/10 one year ago
One of the maxims I maintain in my film viewing of "stories based on true events" is that, if I don't know the story, I don't research it until after the viewing. It takes the fun out of the experience (like knowing the ending beforehand) and allows you to enjoy the personal vision of the director a More
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