Awakenings

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.

Cast :

• Robert De Niro
• Leonard Lowe

• Robin Williams
• Dr. Malcolm Sayer

• Julie Kavner
• Eleanor Costello

• Ruth Nelson
• Mrs. Lowe

• John Heard
• Dr. Kaufman

• Penelope Ann Miller
• Paula

• Alice Drummond
• Lucy