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Awakenings
Description
The film tells the story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Under his painstaking guidance, they begin responding to certain stimuli. He is then given permission to test a new drug on one of his patients.
The film tells the story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Under his painstaking guidance, they begin responding to certain stimuli. He is then given permission to test a new drug on one of his patients.
Actors:
Byron Utley,
Oliver Block,
Le Clanché du Rand,
Gloria Harper,
Yusef Bulos,
Christina Huertes,
Keith Diamond
Byron Utley
Oliver Block
10 January 1977, New York City, New York, USA
Le Clanché du Rand
12 August 1942, South Africa
Gloria Harper
Yusef Bulos
14 September 1940, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
Christina Huertes
Keith Diamond
26 March 1962, Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Country:
United States
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
August 14, 2003
Utter goo.
Nick's Flick Picks
November 02, 2004
I remember this film, which I saw 13 years ago, as a squishy article redeemed by two strong performances; I am not inclined to go back for a second opinion.
January 15, 2012
Maybe life affirming, but hardly life-changing.
Needcoffee.com
May 20, 2003
Moving and well-acted.
Common Sense Media
December 22, 2010
Nonfunny Robin Williams role in moving story.
Moviehole
March 10, 2005
Tour-de-force performances and one memorable storyline
August 15, 2014
Williams gives his best "straight" performance, shorn of all his marvelous manic vaudeville. The man he plays here is not a performer, which he was even in Dead Poets Society, but simply a man.
Shadows on the Wall
June 05, 2004
Moving and over-sentimental - but Marshall's best film.
FulvueDrive-in.com
July 05, 2007
A beautifully moving, life-affirming true story.
Nitrate Online
May 23, 2004
Solid medical drama. Williams is terrific in a straight role.
August 17, 2014
a curiously-underloved film... Awakenings will get a re-evaluation in the wake of Williams' passing, and that's great. It's just a tragedy it took a tragedy to precipitate it.
February 01, 2007
A potentially intriguing story, based on the actual experiences of Dr. Sacks, gets a characteristically middling, sentimental and uplifting from director Penny Marshall.