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Awakenings

81%Critics37 reviews89%Audience2,030 reviews

6.68.1Kaverage critics score, out of 1019902h 1mPG-13

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The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.

Directed by:

Penny Marshall