TY  - BOOK
AU  - Penny Marshall
AU  - Drummond,Alice
AU  - John Heard
AU  - Julie Kavner
AU  - Penelope Ann Miller
AU  - Robin Williams
AU  - Ruth Nelson
AU  - Robert De Niro
TI  - Awakenings
AV  - DVD 001036 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - USA
PB  - Columbia Pictures Corporation
KW  - Drama
N1  - The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them; Oliver Sacks
N2  - A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. When the first patient awakes, he is now an adult having gone into a coma in his early teens. The film then delights in the new awareness of the patients and then on the reactions of their relatives to the changes in the newly awakened
UR  - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/
ER  -