Awakenings
The film tells the story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Under his painstaking guidance, they begin responding to certain stimuli. He is then given permission to test a new drug on one of his patients.
3 July 1939
24 January 1937, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
3 May 1950, New York City, New York, USA
25 March 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
21 July 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 December 1941, Indianola, Mississippi, USA
14 July 1946, Bronx, New York, USA
13 January 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 August 1942, South Africa
15 August 1929, New York City, New York, USA
14 September 1940, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
6 July 1946, Woodstock, New York, USA
21 May 1928, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
13 December 1907, Fredriksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
June 05, 2004
Moving and over-sentimental - but Marshall's best film.
August 17, 2014
a curiously-underloved film... Awakenings will get a re-evaluation in the wake of Williams' passing, and that's great. It's just a tragedy it took a tragedy to precipitate it.
February 01, 2007
A potentially intriguing story, based on the actual experiences of Dr. Sacks, gets a characteristically middling, sentimental and uplifting from director Penny Marshall.
May 23, 2004
Solid medical drama. Williams is terrific in a straight role.
March 10, 2005
Tour-de-force performances and one memorable storyline
August 15, 2014
Williams gives his best "straight" performance, shorn of all his marvelous manic vaudeville. The man he plays here is not a performer, which he was even in Dead Poets Society, but simply a man.
January 15, 2012
Maybe life affirming, but hardly life-changing.
November 02, 2004
I remember this film, which I saw 13 years ago, as a squishy article redeemed by two strong performances; I am not inclined to go back for a second opinion.
May 20, 2003
Moving and well-acted.
July 05, 2007
A beautifully moving, life-affirming true story.
August 14, 2003
Utter goo.
December 22, 2010
Nonfunny Robin Williams role in moving story.
