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Awakenings Director: Penny Marshall Cast: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/10/1997
  • Original Release: 1990
  • Rating: Rated PG13
  • Sales Rank: 13,361

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Chapter Selections
0. Chapter Selections
1. Introduction. [:13]
2. Start. [4:40]
3. The Bronx, 1969. [1:23]
4. Clinical experience required. [1:42]
5. A chronic hopspital. [1:48]
6. Home research. [1:28]
7. A new arrival. [2:55]
8. The will of the ball. [2:27]
9. Stimulus and response. [1:42]
10. Lucy on the move. [3:05]
11. 25 Years Of Atypicals. [1:52]
12. "I found the connection." [:49]
13. Dr. Peter Ingham. [2:11]
14. Visual rhythm. [2:29]
15. "I'd like to know more about your son." [1:29]
16. Brain waves. [1:12]
17. Will of the ballls. [:55]
18. Reaching them. [3:28]
19. Ouija board. [3:00]
20. L-Dopa. [2:23]
21. Asking Permission. [1:45]
22. Parental consent. [1:22]
23. The experiment begins. [2:13]
24. Increasing the dosage. [1:06]
25. "It's quiet." [2:31]
26. Someone to see Leonard. [1:31]
27. Meeting the staff. [1:46]
28. Older than he remembered. [1:49]
29. A mother's lullaby. [2:26]
30. Bronx tour. [2:51]
31. The Periodic Table of Elements. [1:46]
32. A request for the rest. [1:29]
33. The patron's presentation. [2:19]
34. Miracles. [1:47]
35. Awakenings. [3:15]
36. Group outing. [2:24]
37. "Are you following me?." [1:12]
38. Rethinking the outing. [1:40]
39. A devoted daughter. [1:36]
40. You Made Me Love You; "He Knows." [2:06]
41. Resuming their lives. [2:24]
42. "He never talked about girls before." [:38]
43. An important call from Leonard. [2:36]
44. What Leonard wants. [1:42]
45. Insufficient data at this time; restrained. [2:30]
46. The Messiah of Ward 5. [1:00]
47. Not paranoia, a fact. [1:01]
48. "The drug's not working." [2:59]
49. Glasses. [1:14]
50. "Help Me." [1:20]
51. Back with the group. [3:41]
52. Like a light switch going off. [1:13]
53. "Learn from me." [1:15]
54. Not grotesque. [:58]
55. Asking them to stop. [:50]
56. Last dance with Paula. [4:28]
57. The dream ends. [2:45]
58. Adjusting to the realitites of miracles. [1:31]
59. Asking Elanor out. [2:06]
60. Afterword. [:39]
61. End credits. [3:14]

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Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permission to test the drug on one of his patients: Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro), who 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. Julie Kavner and John Heard also star. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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September 28, 2003: This film is one of the few movies based on actual events that I really enjoyed. Because it is a true story, it is not only entertaining but also educational. In my opinion, Robin Williams gave one of his best performance in this movie. He captured so well the essence of being a philantropic doctor, who is frustrated with life's injustice, touched by the patients, recovery, motivated to surge on to find a cure for his patiens' illness.