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Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks' 1973 memoir of the same title. It tells the true story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer (portrayed by Robin Williams), who, in 1969, discovered beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa. He administered it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe (played by Robert De Niro) and the rest of the patients were awakened after decades of catatonia and have to deal with a new life in a new time. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Directed by Penny Marshall, the film was produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates at Yale University and optioned it a few years later. Awakenings stars Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, and Max Von Sydow. The film features a non-speaking cameo from jazz legend Dexter Gordon (who died before the film's release) and then-unknowns Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, and Vincent Pastore play a doctor, neurochemist, and psych-ward patient, respectively. Also, a then-unknown Vin Diesel was in the film playing a psych-ward orderly, but he was uncredited.
Awakenings movie clips: http://j.mp/2mPcs6A BUY THE MOVIE: http://bit.ly/2nJZrPk Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Leonard (Robert De Niro) begins to show signs of getting worse. FILM DESCRIPTION: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permission to test the drug on one of his patients: Leonard ...
Awakenings movie clips: http://j.mp/2mPcs6A BUY THE MOVIE: http://bit.ly/2nJZrPk Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Dr. Sayer (Robin Williams) reflects on what he learned as his patients' conditions worsen. FILM DESCRIPTION: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permission to test the drug on on...
Awakenings movie clips: http://j.mp/2mPcs6A BUY THE MOVIE: http://bit.ly/2nJZrPk Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Dr. Sayer (Robin Williams) discovers that Lucy (Alice Drummond) can catch an object even though she is catatonic. FILM DESCRIPTION: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permission...
I DO NOT OWN. In this scene from 'Awakenings' (1990), Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) shows Dr. Kaufman (John Heard), Nurse Costello (Julie Kavner) and the rest of the staff that Lucy (Alice Drummond) is not as "unresponsive" as they thought. Uploaded for my July 21-Aug. 31 tribute to Robin Williams on Twitter and Facebook (#CelebratingRobinWilliams). I do not own any part of this video; all rights belong to Sony/Columbia Pictures. No copyright infringement intended. Apologies for all the pixelation. RIP Robin Williams.
Awakenings movie clips: http://j.mp/2mPcs6A BUY THE MOVIE: http://bit.ly/2nJZrPk Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: After giving Leonard (Robert De Niro) a large dose of L-Dopa, Dr. Sayer (Robin Williams) awakens to find Leonard gone. FILM DESCRIPTION: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permi...
Awakenings movie clips: http://j.mp/2mPcs6A BUY THE MOVIE: http://bit.ly/2nJZrPk Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Leonard (Robert De Niro) visits Paula (Penelope Ann Miller) one last time. FILM DESCRIPTION: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permission to test the drug on one of his patient...
Awakenings (1990) Directed by Penny Marshall Starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams The original trailer remastered in 1080p. NOT official. Fan-remake.
Needless to say, another day has passed away
Yet everything, and nothing, has changed
Awake I lie, my thoughts get lost up in the sky
Yet everything, and nothing, has changed...
Maybe a mystic - with fortunes to tell...
Surrender my coin at the old wishing well...
Maybe the stars will align in the night...
To show me the path that is right
'Would've been's and 'could've been's
they waste my days away
the colors of my life dissolve and fade to gray
So many paths of promise
Indecision poisons my mind
If only I had seen the signs - so blind
Yet I must journey on - on and on
A haunting vision torments me
It smothers and steals my dreams
I see an old man in the mirror
cold and bitter starring back at me
Here I am - at the crossing of life I stand
On my own - looking down the road
Hear my cry - answer me
Still I'm searching yet the truth is unknown - though the night is cold
I walk the road alone