🎬 Title: Awakenings 📅 Year: 1990 🎭 Genre: Drama, Biography 📖 Plot Summary: Based on true events, Awakenings tells the moving story of Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy and dedicated neurologist who discovers a groundbreaking treatment for a group of catatonic patients who survived a mysterious illness decades earlier. Using a new drug called L-Dopa, he manages to “awaken” them after years of being unresponsive — most notably Leonard Lowe, who regains consciousness after 30 years trapped in his body.

Robin Williams and Robert De Niro star in Awakenings, which is based on the true story of a doctor whose medical discovery helped bring sick patients out of comas after decades. Now on Netflix | Netflix

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