In this film, Dr. Malcolm Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital and is put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients. Under Sayer’s painstaking guidance, they begin responding to certain stimuli. Sayer is then given permission to test a new drug on one of his patients., Touching drama, based on a true story, starring Robin Williams as a doctor whose revolutionary new methods of treating ‘human statues’ – patients frozen in a sleeping stasis for many years – yields miraculous results. Robert De Niro, as Leonard Lowe, is the first to return to ‘life’, becoming the doctor’s model patient before his slow, sad regression back to his former state., Dr Sayers discovers a miraculous new treatment that can draw ‘living statues’ out of their catatonic state. Leonard becomes Sayers’ model patient, but will his new lease of life be permanent? Drama., Factually based account of a doctor’s extraordinary work with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital in the 1960s. Speculating that their rigidity may be like an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his sceptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a then new drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease., Fact-based story about a neurologist who tries to revive a near-comatose patient., Robert de Niro, in an Oscar-nominated performance, plays Leonard Lowe, who has been in a catatonic state since his early teens. Now an adult, he and dozens of fellow sufferers have been languishing in a Bronx hospital for decades, apparently incurable. However, in the mid ’60s, a new doctor (Robin Williams) tries a revolutionary drug treatment which, amazingly, awakens the patients and gives them back their lives. But is the miracle all that it seems? Based on a true story. Also stars Julie Kavner (the voice of Marge from The Simpsons).
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Awakenings ” ?
A: The main cast includes Robert De Niro,Robin Williams,Julie Kavner,Ruth Nelson,John Heard,Penelope Ann Miller,Alice Drummond,Judith Malina,Barton Heyman,George Martin,Anne Meara,Richard Libertini,Laura Esterman,Dexter Gordon,Max von Sydow,Jayne Haynes,Le Clanche Du Rand,Yusef Bulos,Steven Randazzo,Gloria Harper,Gwyllum Evans,Mary Catherine Wright,Mary Alice,Keith Diamond,Steve Vinovich,Tiger Haynes,John Christopher Jones,Bradley Whitford,Harvey Miller,Tanya Berezin,Peter Stormare,Shane Fistell,Waheedah Ahmad,Charles Keating,Christina Huertes,Linda Burns,Judy Jacksina,Gary Tacon,Rico Elias,Mel Gorham,Chris Carolan,Debra Kovner-Zaks,Max Rabinowitz,Libby Titus,Michael Hyde,Tomislav Novakovic,Adam Bryant,Anthony J. Nici,Joan E. MacIntosh,Oliver Block,Buck Smith,Gordon Joseph Weiss,Byron Utley,Anthony McGowen,Paul Montgomery,Leonard Tepper,Vincent Pastore,Howard Feller,Dominic West,Imelda Staunton,Isaac Hempstead-Wright,Shaun Dooley,Richard Durden,John Shrapnel,Cal Macaninch,Lucy Cohu,Andrew Havill,Ian Hanmore,Anastasia Hille,Diana Kent,Les Lazarowitz,Nick Murphy,Stephen Volk,Arne Schmidt,Gerald Greenberg,Cynthia Flynt,Jere Huggins,Penny Marshall,Ilona Herman,Bill Groom,Bernadette Mazur,Miroslav Ondrícek,Steven Zaillian,Amy Lemisch,Anton Furst,Battle Davis,Elliot Abbott.
Q: When Did the “Awakenings” Released?
A: The Movie “Awakenings” originally aired on 1990-01-01 and released in the year of 1990.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Awakenings” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Awakenings” ?
A: “Awakenings” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
