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Awakenings (1990)
7.6
Ratings: 7.6/10 from 41,245 users
Metascore:
74/100
Reviews: 135 user | 20 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. Director:Penny Marshall |
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Nominated for 3 Oscars.
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Eleanor Costello
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Mrs. Lowe
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Dr. Kaufman
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Paula
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Alice Drummond | ... |
Lucy
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Rose
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Barton Heyman | ... |
Bert
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George Martin | ... |
Frank
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| Anne Meara | ... |
Miriam
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Sidney
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Laura Esterman | ... |
Lolly
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Dexter Gordon | ... |
Rolando
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Jayne Haynes | ... |
Frances
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Storyline
A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. When the first patient awakes, he is now an adult having gone into a coma in his early teens. The film then delights in the new awareness of the patients and then on the reactions of their relatives to the changes in the newly awakened. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Despertares See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$417,076 (USA) (25 December 1990) (12 Screens)Gross:
$52,096,475 (USA)Company Credits
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Written by Rod Argent
Performed by The Zombies
Courtesy of Marquis Enterprises Ltd.
by arrangment with Celebrity Licensing Inc. See more »
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For the movie Robert De Niro filmed a scene with "Lillian T.", the only surviving patient from Oliver Sacks' book, "Awakenings". She was also said to have been the most outspoken patient in the 1973 documentary about the patients, also called "Awakenings". See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: When Doctor Sayer and Leonard are driving through the streets, the New York City Buses are GMC RTSs which were not produced until 1979. The film takes place in the 1960s. See more »Soundtracks
"Time of the Season"Written by Rod Argent
Performed by The Zombies
Courtesy of Marquis Enterprises Ltd.
by arrangment with Celebrity Licensing Inc. See more »
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