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 Awakenings (1990)
 7.8/10 from 104102 users Updated : 2018-02-25
 Rating: 6.7/10
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 Biography , Drama
 Robert De Niro , Robin Williams , Julie Kavner , Ruth Nelson , John Heard , Penelope Ann Miller , Alice Drummond , Judith Malina , Barton Heyman ,
George Martin , Anne Meara , Richard Libertini , Laura Esterman , Dexter Gordon , Jayne Haynes
 Penny Marshall
IMDB  121
 1990
 1969. Dr. Malcolm Sayer is hired as a clinical physician at a psychiatric hospital in the Bronx| despite he only having a research background. The job is not ideal
on his side as he has difficulties relating to people which is the reason he has focused on research projects not involving human subjects| while the hospital hires
him somewhat out of desperation in not finding anyone else with the qualifications who wants the job. Most of his patients are in a semi-catatonic state and are
housed in what some of the orderlies coin the "garden" ward| where all they can do for the patients is water and feed them. He notices that some of the patients|
despite their generally catatonic state| respond in unusual ways to certain stimuli. In doing some research| he also finds that some common bonds between these
patients are that they suffered from encephalitis in the 1920s or 1930s| and that their physical states are like they have Parkinson's disease frozen in time. As
such| he is able to ...
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.
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