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Awakenings
Running Time: 121 min.
MPAA Rating: PG13
Box Office: / $52,096,475
Produced By: / Columbia Pictures
Released: December 20, 1990 (USA)
Release By: Columbia Pictures

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 h... More >>

Cast and Crew:
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 sentimentali ...More >>

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