Awakenings
Summary:
Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimula... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Robin Williams - (Dr. Malcolm Sayer)
Robert De Niro - (Leonard Lowe)
Julie Kavner - (Eleanor Costello)
Ruth Nelson - (Mrs. Lowe)
John Heard - (Dr. Kaufman)
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Review:
Loosely based on a book by real-life neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1990) marked the high point of a successful side career for Sacks as a chronicler of unusual medical case histories. Although the film too often displays the easy sentimentality typical of director Penny Marshall, and the plot pitted its heroes against mindless hospita... Continue >>
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