Awakenings
Cast: Robin Williams, Robert DeNiro, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller, John Heard.
Director: Penny Marshall.
Writers: Oliver Sacks (book), Steven Zaillian (screenplay).
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Awakenings
The film Awakenings is based on a true story by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Robin Williams plays the doctor Malcolm Sayer who in 1969 gets permitted to try an experimental drug on a group of people who have been comatosed for years and even decades, hoping them to awaken from their comas.
One of the patients, Leonard Lowe (Robert DeNiro) completely „awakens” from his coma, which inspires Sayer to ask for funding from donors so that all the other patients can receive the medication and experience “awakenings” back to reality.
Leonard, who went into a coma in his early teens, is slowly adjusting to his new life, and finds himself attracted to Paula, who is a daughter of another hospital patient.
He is delighted with the simplest things such as the breeze from a fan, and brushing his teeth, and he never complains about what he has lost, only relishes what he has gained.
Tragically, the drug only seems to have temporary effects on the patients, and as the first patient to awaken from his coma, Leonard is the first one to start suffering from spasms and mania, but still he insists to continuing the experiment, for others to learn from.
In the end, he falls back into coma again, this time for good, but this wonderful film is really about telling us to enjoy life to the fullest.
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