This is a movie review for "Awakenings", first released December 12, 1990 in Century City, CA. We watched this April 19, 2020. Main reasons for watching this movie were Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Run Time: 2 Hour and 1 Minute
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable 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
Plot
Doctor Sayer has been taken from lab research to being assigned to a hospital. A hand of his patients are psych patients and most are catatonic (or near). Is there way to bring these people back to "normality"?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3.5/5 - *SPOILERS*
This is a tough movie to watch, especially since it is based on a true story.
What they figured in this movie is that most of his catatonic patients survived the encephalitis lethargica epidemic in the 1920s. With experimenting with expensive drugs, they are able to help some of the patients experience moments of "being awake" to the real world. Of course, the solution is not very long term and they cannot keep the patients awake to the real world, but it was the idea and the experience of being alive that the patients liked for the short term. How can we keep them amongst the living, away from being catatonic for the rest of their lives? I am unsure that they have found a way to beat this symptom brought on by encephalitis, but I would like to think that they have done more research since 1969.
Anyways, this is a good movie and I would recommend it. That's my movie review. Thank you for reading. More reviews to come eventually. Feel free to leave comments or questions. ;-)
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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