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Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks’s 1973 memoir of the same title. It tells the true story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer, who, in 1969, discovered beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa. He administered it to catatonic patients who survived the
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Elevated by some of Robin Williams' finest non-comedic work and a strong performance from Robert De Niro, Awakenings skirts the edges of melodrama, then soars above it. Read Critics Reviews ...
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.
Robin Williams and Robert De Niro star in Awakenings, which is based on the true story of a doctor whose medical discovery helped bring sick patients out...
AWAKENINGS. Drama. By opening one man's eyes to the world... he opened his own. Robert De Niro (in an Oscar®-nominated performance) and Robin Williams star in this powerful, true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes.
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