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Release Date
• USA: Dec 20, 1990
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 1997
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• Awakenings
• Zeit des Erwachens (1991)
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Genre: Drama, True Story, Tear Jerker, Mental Illness, Doctor, Psychodrama
Tagline: There is no such thing as a simple miracle.
Plot: A pioneering neurologist wants to take a risk and give his patients who suffer from encephalitis a drug used for Parkinson's Disease. He tries it out on one man who miraculously wakes from his perpetual catatonic state. After his initial success, the hospital staff allows him to "wake" the other patients on the ward, who all make remarkable recoveries. But the "miracle" proves fleeting as, one by one, the patients return to their solitary, trance-like worlds.
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Steven Zaillian
Schindler's List, The Falcon and the Snowman, Jack the Bear |
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