Huge Spoilers Ahead--STOP READING UNLESS YOU DON'T MIND SEEING A HUGE SPOILER!!! I WARNED YOU!!! "Awakenings" is a pretty good movie and I do recommend you see it. I just think that the film is a tad overrated. Most of my feelings about this are because, ultimately, all the miraculously revived patients fell right back asleep! I know this is a big spoiler--but it might make it so many won't even want to bother with the film. However, on the plus side, at least they didn't give the film a phony happy ending--since it is based on a true story.
Robin Williams is very nice in a non-comedic role. He plays a doctor who has a unit of supposedly hopeless cases. These folks have a weird disease (encephilitis) that makes them zombie-like. However, instead of giving up on these poor folks, he decided to try again and again to revive them. He is successful, to a point.
Much of the pleasure in watching the film is seeing the folks reconnect with the world as well as the fine acting. But, as I said above, a short time later, they all fell back into their stupor--where they remained until death. This makes for a MEGA-depressing movie--something odd, since the film is billed as quite the opposite. Worth seeing but a real downer.
Robin Williams is very nice in a non-comedic role. He plays a doctor who has a unit of supposedly hopeless cases. These folks have a weird disease (encephilitis) that makes them zombie-like. However, instead of giving up on these poor folks, he decided to try again and again to revive them. He is successful, to a point.
Much of the pleasure in watching the film is seeing the folks reconnect with the world as well as the fine acting. But, as I said above, a short time later, they all fell back into their stupor--where they remained until death. This makes for a MEGA-depressing movie--something odd, since the film is billed as quite the opposite. Worth seeing but a real downer.