1990
Oliver Sacks, Steven Zaillian
Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Alice Drummond, Judith Malina, Barton Heyman, Anne Meara, Richard Libertini, Laura Esterman, Dexter Gordon, Jayne Haynes
A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of catatonic patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been catatonic 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 catatonic state 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.
116 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
693 MB
DivX 5 - resolution: 544x288