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Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1884 movies items)"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"
Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1884 movies items)"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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Best Picture Nominees (in Ten Sentences) (478 movies items)"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""
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