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Awakenings (1990)
7.6
Ratings: 7.6/10 from 45,791 users
Metascore:
74/100
Reviews: 141 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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6 wins
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7 nominations
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Cast
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Eleanor Costello
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Ruth Nelson | ... |
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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There is no such thing as a simple miracle.Parents Guide:
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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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Dr. Malcolm Sayer: Yes, everybody's sleeping.
Leonard Lowe: I'm not.
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Prior to filming, the actors portraying patients studied films of Dr. Oliver Sacks's actual post-encephalitis patients, and Robert De Niro and Robin Williams spent time with Sacks in the hospital observing him and his patients. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: When Dr. Sayer takes a patient to the window and shows the street outside, 1980s cars are seen driving by though the movie is set in the 1960s. See more »Quotes
Leonard Lowe: It's quiet.Dr. Malcolm Sayer: Yes, everybody's sleeping.
Leonard Lowe: I'm not.
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