Awakenings Soundtrack

Synopsis: Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir of the same title. It tells the true story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer (portrayed by Robin Williams), who, in 1969, discovered beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa. He administered it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Leonard Lowe (played by Robert De Niro) and the rest of the patients were awakened after decades of catatonia and have to deal with a new life in a new time. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
PG-13
Year:
1990
121 min
2,221 Views


Rate this script:1.8 / 4 votes
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1Awakenings 
2Catch 
3End Title 
4L Dopa 
5Leonard 
6Lucy 
7Outside 
8Time of the Season 

Steven Zaillian

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for his screenplay Schindler's List (1993) and has also earned Oscar nominations for Awakenings, Gangs of New York and Moneyball. He was presented with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2009 Austin Film Festival and the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America in 2011. Zaillian is the founder of Film Rites, a film production company. more…

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