Awakenings
1990
14+
The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.
Drama
Director
- Penny Marshall
Producers
- Penny Marshall
- Walter F. Parkes
- Lawrence Lasker
- Elliot Abbott
- Arne Schmidt
Cast
- Robert De Niro
- Robin Williams
- Julie Kavner
- Ruth Nelson
- John Heard
- Penelope Ann Miller
- Alice Drummond
- Judith Malina
Writers
- Penny Marshall
- Steven Zaillian
