Something went wrong
Try again later.
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.
24 January 1937, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 July 1967, Alameda County, California, USA
21 May 1933, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
22 October 1941, London, England, UK
20 September 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 May 1928, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
27 February 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 October 1959, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
15 August 1929, New York City, New York, USA
19 March 1948, San Francisco, California, USA
2 August 1905, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
12 August 1942, South Africa
4 June 1926, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
14 September 1940, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
3 December 1941, Indianola, Mississippi, USA
June 05, 2004
Moving and over-sentimental - but Marshall's best film.
May 20, 2003
Moving and well-acted.
August 14, 2003
Utter goo.
March 10, 2005
Tour-de-force performances and one memorable storyline
May 23, 2004
Solid medical drama. Williams is terrific in a straight role.
December 22, 2010
Nonfunny Robin Williams role in moving story.
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 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.
July 05, 2007
A beautifully moving, life-affirming true story.
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.
January 15, 2012
Maybe life affirming, but hardly life-changing.
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.
