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Awakenings (1990)

Drama

The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his sceptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.

Country
USA
Cast and crew
  • Penny MarshallDirector
  • Robert De NiroLeonard Lowe
  • Robin WilliamsDr. Malcolm Sayer
  • Julie KavnerEleanor Costello
  • Ruth NelsonMrs. Lowe
  • John HeardDr. Kaufman
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