- Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir of the same title
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Awakenings facts
- 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 musician 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
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