Awakenings

Release Date:

Dec 20, 1990

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Running Time:

2:01

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Penny Marshall

Cast:

Robert De Niro	Leonard Lowe
Robin Williams	Dr. Malcolm Sayer
Julie Kavner	Eleanor Costello
Ruth Nelson	Mrs. Lowe
John Heard	Dr. Kaufman
Penelope Ann Miller	Paula
Alice Drummond	Lucy
Judith Malina	Rose

Producers:

Walter F. Parkes , Lawrence Lasker

Language:

English

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The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.

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