Awakenings
PG-13 | 1990 | Robert De Niro, Robin Williams
A doctor in the chronic-care ward of a Bronx hospital tends to patients suffering from
encephalitis lethargica, a disease, caused by a virus, which has left them comatose. Through the experimental use of a drug called L Dopa, the doctor is able to revive several of his patients, many of whom have been asleep; for decades. Based on a book by Oliver Sacks.
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