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Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film based on the 1973 non-fiction book of the same name. Directed by Penny Marshall, it was written for the screen by Steven Zaillian, who based his screenplay on Oliver Sacks 's 1973 memoir of the same name. It tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams), based on Sacks ...
Awakenings. (book) 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 ...
Oliver Sacks. 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. He interned at Mount Zion Hospital in ...
Awakenings is an opera in two acts composed by Tobias Picker, with a libretto by Aryeh Lev Stollman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based on Awakenings , Oliver Sacks' 1960's chronicle of his efforts to help the victims of an encephalitis epidemic , [ 3 ] the opera was commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis , and premiered on June 5, 2022.
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Spring Awakening is a coming-of-age rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the 1891 German play Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. Set in late 19th-century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult ...
Awakening, a 1981 Chinese film starring Joan Chen. Awakenings, a 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall, adapted from the book by Oliver Sacks (see below) Awakening (1992 film) or Mary from Beijing, a Hong Kong film. Awakening (2013 film), a Nigerian thriller. Suryaa: An Awakening, a 1989 Indian film. Underworld: Awakening, a 2012 American action ...
Underworld: Awakening is a 2012 American action horror film directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein from a screenplay by Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski, and Allison Burnett, based on a story by Wiseman and Hlavin. It is the direct sequel to Underworld: Evolution (2006) and the fourth installment in the Underworld film series.
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published on 22 April 1899.Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South.