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The film stars Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. Awakenings was produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates at Yale, and optioned it a few years later. Released on December 12, 1990, the film was a ...
12 best Robin Williams movies 1. ... Williams plays a character loosely based on the pioneering neurologist Oliver Sacks, turning in a restrained and thoughtful performance.
Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [2] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford , before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.
Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks.It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. [1] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing) in the Bronx, New York. [2]
The series is inspired by the work of neurologist Oliver Sacks, who was the basis of the 1990 Robin Williams movie “Awakenings,” which was inspired by Sacks' 1973 book of the same name. Sacks ...
Robin Williams was in more than 60 movies over the course of his career. He was nominated for three Oscars, winning for his best-reviewed film, "Good Will Hunting."
Sacks’ 1973 book, “Awakenings,” about his experience of treating patients whose encephalitis left them in a statue-like condition, was adapted into a 1990 movie in which Robin Williams ...
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills [1] [2] and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike, [3] [4] Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time.