Awakenings

Awakenings

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Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the in...

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Main Author: Newman, Randy (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm), Image Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Davis, Battle (Editor), De Niro, Robert (Actor), Drummond, Alice, 1929- (Actor), Gordon, Dexter, 1923-1990 (Actor), Greenberg, Gerald B. (Editor), Heard, John, 1946- (Actor), Heard, John, 1946-2017, Kavner, Julie (Actor), Lasker, Lawrence (Producer), Marshall, Penny (Director), Meara, Anne (Actor), Miller, Penelope Ann (Actor), Nelson, Ruth, 1905-1992 (Actor), Ondrícek, Miroslav, 1934- (Cinematographer), Parkes, Walter F. (Producer), Sacks, Oliver W, Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Sydow, Max von, 1929-2020 (Actor), Williams, Robin, 1951-2014 (Actor), Zaillian, Steven (Screenwriter)
Format: Unknown
Language:English
French
Spanish
Published: Culver City, Calif. : Chatsworth, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video Distributed by Image Entertainment, c1997
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1997
Subjects:
Dopa > Therapeutic use > Case studies > Drama
Epidemic encephalitis > Complications > Case studies > Drama
Feature films
Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease > Case studies > Drama
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Biographical films
Fiction films
Film adaptations

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Stanford University

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Call Number: ZDVD 6172

Johns Hopkins University

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Call Number: PN1997 .A94 1997

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