Poster

Awakenings

Year

1990

Genre

Biography, Drama

Country

USA

Director

Penny Marshall

Writer

Oliver Sacks, Steven Zaillian

Actors

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

Description

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.

Comments

Duration

116 minutes (at 25 frames per second)

Filesize

693 MB

Video

DivX 5 - resolution: 544x288

Audio