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- Leonard Lowe is the fact-based character played by Robert De Niro in the new film “Awakenings.” As a young boy he contracted an encephalitic sleeping sickness. Almost 30 years later, an experimental drug woke him up. Eventually the drug failed and Lowe returned to his coma.
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Dec 14, 2023 · The movie stays true to the essence of Sacks' book, depicting the devastating effects of encephalitis lethargica and the potential of L-DOPA, despite some changes for dramatic purposes.
- Adrienne Tyler
He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the 1919–1930 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro) and the rest of the patients are awakened after decades, and have to deal with a new life in a new time.
Dec 29, 1990 · Leonard Lowe is the fact-based character played by Robert De Niro in the new film “Awakenings.” As a young boy he contracted an encephalitic sleeping sickness. Almost 30 years later, an...
Jul 7, 2022 · Leonard Lowe is the fact-based character played by Robert De Niro in the new film “Awakenings.” As a young boy he contracted an encephalitic sleeping sickness. Is Leonard Lowe a real person?
Dec 20, 1990 · The patients whose lives he changed in the spring of 1969 had once suffered from "sleepy sickness," the encephalitis epidemic that during the 1920's afflicted five million people worldwide.
- Penny Marshall
Jan 25, 2024 · Penny Marshall’s drama Awakenings (1990) centres on Dr Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) and his patient Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro). In the film, Sayer uses a drug designed to treat Parkinson’s Disease to awaken catatonic patients in a Bronx hospital.
One of his patients, Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro), has not communicated with anyone since lapsing into catatonia as a child. Gradually, Lowe comes out of his shell, encouraging Sayers to administer L-DOPA to the other patients under his care, who must learn to cope with a new life in a new time.
