Awakenings
Penny Marshall
Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson
1990
United States
Completed
English
2h 1m
Overview
Dr. Sayer is a pioneering neurologist who wants to take a risk and give his patients who suffer from encephalitis a drug used for Parkinson's Disease. He tries it out on one man who miraculously wakes from his perpetual catatonic state.