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" opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Alvarez, The ObserverĪwakenings-which inspired the major motion picture-is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), who is based on Sacks, who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-DOPA in 1969. It is written by Steven Zaillian, who based his screenplay on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir Awakenings. Sacks, gets a characteristically middling, sentimental and uplifting from director Penny Marshall. Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film directed by Penny Marshall.

Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. A potentially intriguing story, based on the actual experiences of Dr. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. "One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." - The Washington Post Awakenings which inspired the major motion pictureis the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I.