Awakenings
Rated PG-13
121 minutes
1990
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.
- Synopsis courtesy of Tribune Media Service
Film Credits
Director: Penny Marshall
Producer: Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker
Cast: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Miller, Alice Drummond and Judith Malina