Awakenings (1990)
• December 4th, 1990 • 2h 0min
Drama
Overview
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Last Rampage
Released on: 2017-09-22
Drama, Crime, Thriller
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State...
Step Up
Released on: 2006-08-11
Music, Drama, Romance, Crime
Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gainin...
Gridiron Gang
Released on: 2006-09-15
Crime, Drama
Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem b...
Lolita
Released on: 1997-09-27
Drama, Romance
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
Proof
Released on: 2005-09-05
Drama, Mystery
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Released on: 2005-06-01
Drama, Comedy, Romance
Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits e...
Lords of Dogtown
Released on: 2005-06-03
Drama
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboa...
My Brother Is an Only Child
Released on: 2007-03-28
Comedy, Drama, History
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
The Quiet
Released on: 2005-09-12
Drama, Thriller
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer....
The Mighty
Released on: 1998-06-01
Drama, Comedy
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma...
The Phantom of the Opera
Released on: 2004-12-08
Thriller, Drama, Romance
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath...
The Prince of Egypt
Released on: 1998-12-16
Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family
The strong bond between two brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at od...
The Dreamlife of Angels
Released on: 1998-10-16
Drama
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Mari...
The Defection of Simas Kudirka
Released on: 1978-01-23
TV Movie, Drama
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political ...
El triunfo
Released on: 2006-04-28
Drama
Barcelona, 1980s: in a tough urban neighbourhood inhabited by survivors and ruled by ex-legionnaires...
Iris
Released on: 2004-07-16
Drama
After the failure of her marriage, Iris goes back to her hometown during the Spanish Civil War (1936...
Riddance
Released on: 1973-05-30
Drama
Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pr...
The Shoe
Released on: 1998-03-01
Comedy, Drama
The late 1950s. Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone wh...
Orlando
Released on: 1992-12-11
Drama, Fantasy
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she w...
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Released on: 1997-02-28
Drama, Thriller
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...