Awakenings
- Robin Williams: Dr. Malcolm Sayer
- Julie Kavner: Eleanor Costello
- John Heard: Dr. Kaufman
- Penelope Ann Miller: Paula
- Alice Drummond: Lucy
- Judith Malina: Rose
- Dexter Gordon: Rolando
- Peter Stormare: neuro chemist
Awakenings (Original Title: Awakenings ) is an American film drama from 1990 was directed by Penny Marshall, and written by Steven Zaillian, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings ( consciousness dawns, German 1989).. The film starred Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Action
The in the 1960s working in New York City doctor Malcolm Sayer explores the European sleeping sickness. The decades patient suffering are regarded as incurable.
Sayer uses a means ( levodopa or short L-dopa ), which he hopes to return to the present in a comatose state for decades patients to normal life. The first patient on whom the agent was tried was Leonard Lowe, who was at that time for 30 years in a state of coma. Lowe regained consciousness, his rehabilitation begins. After some time to relapse, eventually falls Lowe back into a coma.
The film is based on true events, the experienced native of Great Britain doctor Oliver Sacks in the 1960s at New York's Beth Abraham Hospital.
Soundtracks
The music was composed in 1990 by Randy Newman.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film writes: " The process based on actual events movie, which equips the medical as well as humanitarian complex case with a wealth of cinema clichés and one-sided emotional exploits. A demonstration of the ancient knowledge that a tränenvergießendes audience is far from being a proof of a good movie.
Rita Kempley praised in the Washington Post on 11 January 1991, the presentation of Robert De Niro. They also praised the illustrations of Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller, Keith Diamond and Dexter Gordon, the script and the director.
Awards
The main actor Robert De Niro, the producers Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker and screenwriter Steven Zaillian were nominated in 1991 for an Oscar. Robin Williams was nominated in 1991 for a Golden Globe.
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams won in 1990 the National Board of Review Award. Robert De Niro won the 1990 New York Film Critics Circle Award.
Oliver Sacks and Steven Zaillian won in 1991, the USC Scripter Award. Steven Zaillian was nominated for the 1991 Writers Guild of America Award.
Randy Newman was nominated in 1992 for a Grammy Award. The film was nominated for the 1992 Award of the Japanese Academy.
Background
The film played in theaters in the USA about a 52.1 million U.S. dollars.