Aired Tuesday June 8,
9:00pm - 9:55pmon Great Movies Classic +1
Awakenings (1990)
DramaThe 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
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