Awakenings (1991)

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Directed by

Penny Marshall

Starring (View all)

Robert De Niro
Leonard Lowe

Robin Williams
Dr. Malcolm Sayer

Julie Kavner
Eleanor Costello

Ruth Nelson
Mrs. Lowe

John Heard
Dr. Kaufman

Penelope Ann Miller
Paula

Alice Drummond
Lucy

Judith Malina
Rose

Written by

Oliver Sacks

Steven Zaillian
(screenplay)

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An average movie

7 years, 11 months ago at Jan 2 12:39

johanlefourbe

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, even though this movie definitely has a solid reputation, I can’t say it completely worked for me. I have to admit that it was a fascinating story but, unfortunately, the tone was just too cheesy for me. On top of that, it displayed another typical dramatic performance by Robin Williams.... read more

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The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Release date: 11 January 1991
UPC: 043396505698

Tags: Drama (24), 1990 (10), 1990s (8), Based On Novel (6), Illness (5), Biography (4), Medical (4), Mental Illness (4), Based On True Story (3), Influenza (3), Doctor Patient Relationship (3), Wheelchair (3), Hospital (3), True Story (3), Doctor (2), Catatonia (2), Catatonic (2), Diaper Change (2), One Word Title (2), 90s (2)

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"Based on a nonfiction book by Oliver Sacks, with the character of Sayer based closely on Sacks, 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. For the movie, Ro"

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"The late comedian Penny Marshall makes an against-type directing job adapting the medical study from Oliver Sacks. In her third film "Awakenings," Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is hired to care for patients with encephalitis lethargica in a hospital in The Bronx. Sayer tests them with a drug L-DOPA, which causes the patients to awaken from their catatonic trance, and grows a bond with Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro), who got infected when he was a boy in the 1920’s. Even though "Awakenings""