Sunday, December 13, 2009

Drama/Tearjerker: Awakenings- 1990


Based on a true story, this movie is full of emotion. In it, Dr.Sayer, played by Robin Williams, uses a newly discovered Parkinson's drug to bring back 15 patients in his chronic neurology ward from vegetative states, most of whom had been in them for more than 25 years.


Grade: B+


This was SUCH a tearjerker!! Can you imagine? Being gone for more than 25 years, from age 11, only to wake up as an adult? The idea of it seems horrible, but at the same time, absolutely amazing that one person did not want to take that as a final answer, and wanted to try to do something to better these people's lives. The acting in it was amazing, Robin Williams did a wonderful job, as usual (I'm a huge fan) and Robert De Niro was AWESOME, I mean, he plays this part brilliantly, and REALLY gets you into the story. He had me crying off and on the entire movie. Wonderful!

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