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Awakenings
The film tells the story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Under his painstaking guidance, they begin responding to certain stimuli. He is then given permission to test a new drug on one of his patients.
3 May 1950, New York City, New York, USA
14 July 1946, Bronx, New York, USA
21 May 1933, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
22 April 1954, New York City, New York, USA
10 January 1977, New York City, New York, USA
13 January 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 July 1967, Alameda County, California, USA
May 20, 2003
Moving and well-acted.
February 01, 2007
A potentially intriguing story, based on the actual experiences of Dr. Sacks, gets a characteristically middling, sentimental and uplifting from director Penny Marshall.
December 22, 2010
Nonfunny Robin Williams role in moving story.
August 14, 2003
Utter goo.
June 05, 2004
Moving and over-sentimental - but Marshall's best film.
November 02, 2004
I remember this film, which I saw 13 years ago, as a squishy article redeemed by two strong performances; I am not inclined to go back for a second opinion.
August 17, 2014
a curiously-underloved film... Awakenings will get a re-evaluation in the wake of Williams' passing, and that's great. It's just a tragedy it took a tragedy to precipitate it.
May 23, 2004
Solid medical drama. Williams is terrific in a straight role.
January 15, 2012
Maybe life affirming, but hardly life-changing.
July 05, 2007
A beautifully moving, life-affirming true story.
August 15, 2014
Williams gives his best "straight" performance, shorn of all his marvelous manic vaudeville. The man he plays here is not a performer, which he was even in Dead Poets Society, but simply a man.
March 10, 2005
Tour-de-force performances and one memorable storyline