- Title: Awakenings
- Original Title: Awakenings
- Release Date: 04/12/1990
- Tagline: There is no such thing as a simple miracle.
- Budget: $31,000,000.00
- Duration:120 Min / 02:00
- Country:US
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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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Wuchak
5/10
***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 that offers the hope of reviving them. Robert De Niro...
