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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Awakenings

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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