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May 31, 2018 · The dance hall, where the newly-awakened oldsters find out that Prohibition is over, was Casa Galicia, now the Brazilian Missionary Church, 3922 30th Street, Long Island City in Queens. Filming locations for Awakenings (1990), with Robert de Niro and Robin Williams, in the Bronx and Brooklyn.
Principal photography for Awakenings began on October 16, 1989, at the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn, New York, which was operating, and lasted until February 16, 1990. According to Williams, actual patients were used in the filming of the movie.
Location. New York City, New York, USA; City Island, Bronx, New York, USA; New York Botanical Gardens, Brooklyn, New York, USA; Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, USA; Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Technical Specs. Duration. 2h 1m. TCM Emails. A doctor's experiments bring a group of comatose patients back to consciousness.
- Penny Marshall
- Robin Williams
Awakenings was filmed in Bronx, Casa Galicia, City Island, Clarkson Ave, East River Promenade, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, NYBG, Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, Long Island City, New York City, P.S. 039 Henry Bristow, Park Slope, Webster Hall, Williamsbridge Oval and Williamsburg Bridge.
Apr 30, 2024 · Tinto wrote the original script; the film is currently in pre-production ahead of a shoot at Pinewood Studios. Hookings and Tim Kent will produce the title for Camelot. It is fully financed...
Dec 14, 2023 · Awakenings follows neurologist Malcolm Sayer (played by Robin Williams), who, in 1969 while working at a hospital in the Bronx, began extensive research on catatonic patients who survived the 1917-1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica.
The film, directed with intelligence and heart by Penny Marshall, is based on a famous 1972 book by Oliver Sacks, the British-born New York neurologist whose (ital) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (unital) is a classic of medical literature.
