Awakenings 1990 Watch Free in HD

The film tells the story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Under his painstaking guidance, they begin responding to certain stimuli. He is then given permission to test a new drug on one of his patients.

Genre:

Drama, Biography

Actors:

Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Alice Drummond, Judith Malina, Barton Heyman, George Martin, Anne Meara, ...»

Director:

Penny Marshall

Country:

United States

Release:

1990

IMDb:

7.8

Quality:

Duration:

121 min

Projection Booth

Maybe life affirming, but hardly life-changing.

January 15, 2012

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Utter goo.

August 14, 2003

Moviehole

Tour-de-force performances and one memorable storyline

March 10, 2005

Quickflix

a curiously-underloved film... Awakenings will get a re-evaluation in the wake of Williams' passing, and that's great. It's just a tragedy it took a tragedy to precipitate it.

August 17, 2014

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Nitrate Online

Solid medical drama. Williams is terrific in a straight role.

May 23, 2004

EmanuelLevy.Com

A potentially intriguing story, based on the actual experiences of Dr. Sacks, gets a characteristically middling, sentimental and uplifting from director Penny Marshall.

February 01, 2007

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Shadows on the Wall

Moving and over-sentimental - but Marshall's best film.

June 05, 2004

Common Sense Media

Nonfunny Robin Williams role in moving story.

December 22, 2010

FulvueDrive-in.com

A beautifully moving, life-affirming true story.

July 05, 2007

Needcoffee.com

Moving and well-acted.

May 20, 2003

Nick's Flick Picks

I remember this film, which I saw 13 years ago, as a squishy article redeemed by two strong performances; I am not inclined to go back for a second opinion.

November 02, 2004

The New Republic

Williams gives his best "straight" performance, shorn of all his marvelous manic vaudeville. The man he plays here is not a performer, which he was even in Dead Poets Society, but simply a man.

August 15, 2014

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