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    Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on the 1973 non-fiction book of the same name. Directed by Penny Marshall, it was written for the screen by Steven Zaillian, who based his screenplay on Oliver Sacks 's 1973 memoir of the same name. It tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer ( Robin Williams ), based on Sacks, who ...

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      Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks.It...

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      Oliver Wolf Sacks CBE FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015)...

  2. Awakenings (1990) ← Back to main. Cast 62. Robert De Niro. Leonard Lowe ... Jayne Haynes. Frances Le Clanché du Rand. Magda Yusef Bulos. Joseph Steven Randazzo ...

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  4. This true story is adapted from a 1973 book by Dr Oliver Sacks, a clinical neurologist who in a New York hospital in 1969 used the experimental drug L-dopa to awaken a group of patients suffering from Encephalitis lethargica. These survivors of a post-World War I sleeping sickness epidemic had lived in a state of

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  6. Jan 24, 2006 · The film Awakenings (1990) is a fictionalized version of Sacks' book, starring Robin Williams as the Sacks character, a shy and reclusive doctor named Malcolm Sayer. Robert De Niro plays Leonard, one of Sayer's most extreme cases, and the first on whom the drug is tried.

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  7. Learn more about the full cast of Awakenings with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide ... Awakenings - Full Cast & Crew. 74 Metascore; 1990; 2 hr 1 mins ... Jayne Haynes. Frances. Le Clanche ...

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