Awakenings

Release Date:
Dec 20, 1990
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
Running Time:
2:01
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Penny Marshall
Cast:
Robert De Niro
Robin Williams
Julie Kavner
Ruth Nelson
John Heard
Penelope Ann Miller
Alice Drummond
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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