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Awakenings
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.
4 June 1926, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
18 July 1967, Alameda County, California, USA
13 December 1907, Fredriksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
15 August 1929, New York City, New York, USA
15 June 1935, New York, New York, USA
19 March 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
7 March 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
21 May 1933, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
14 September 1940, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
10 October 1959, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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.
May 23, 2004
Solid medical drama. Williams is terrific in a straight role.
July 05, 2007
A beautifully moving, life-affirming true story.
May 20, 2003
Moving and well-acted.
March 10, 2005
Tour-de-force performances and one memorable storyline
August 14, 2003
Utter goo.
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.
June 05, 2004
Moving and over-sentimental - but Marshall's best film.
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.
January 15, 2012
Maybe life affirming, but hardly life-changing.
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.
December 22, 2010
Nonfunny Robin Williams role in moving story.