Awakenings
Movie • 1990 • Drama
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Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
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The other doctors personally believe that the patients are not conscious. They also don't call Dr. Sayer crazy for thinking so. So it's not gaslighting.
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Alcohol is only used in small amounts.
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They dont use recreational drugs, but the patients do take medication in the form of powder mixed with milk
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Leonard is restrained by various doctors and nurses as he attempts to leave the hospital to go for a walk. He is not allowed to leave due to the uncertainty of his condition but he tries anyways
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One of the characters uses an electric razor to shave
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One of the characters, as his condition worsens, starts shaking a lot. Its not technically a seizure, but it looks similar.
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A schizophrenic person repeatedly has periods of unconsciousness.
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A death is mentioned (not shown) and the patients are all assumed to have died after the events of the movie. Nothing is shown
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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The various characters with Encephalitis Lethargica are played by completely able bodied actors, although it would be impossible to hire actors with the condition because most (if not all) people who contracted it have died, and if they haven’t they are in a catatonic state unable to move or respond
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One of the patients mentions their parents having died while they were unresponsive. Its barely noticeable
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It is only mentioned, nothing is really shown.
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You can see the sea in several scenes
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Near the end of the film we see Leonard having his incontinence wear changed
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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The entire movie takes place in a mental institution
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The ouija board planchette squeaks in a slightly nails-on-a-chalkboard way
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Leonard becomes paranoid due to his condition and attacks Dr. Sayer
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The patients are effected by spending so long paralysed and struggle to adjust to life
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Near the beginning, Dr. Sayer talks to one of the patients in the hospital. After a few seconds, she starts screaming
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one patient starts screaming after Dr. Sayer talks to her
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One nurse says the f-bomb when the patients wake up, “It’s a F***ing miracle”
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technically yes, however it is just doctors watching over their patients who are unable to recognize their presence
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The patients are underestimated and seen as write-offs or inanimate objects. Leonard cries that his disability makes him grotesque
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There’s a possibly large age gap, between Leonard who’s in his 40’s-50’s and a young (20’s ish woman). However as leonard is awake for such a short period of time the relationship never goes anywhere
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There’s one character who may have alzheimers, or at least symptoms very similar to alzheimers
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LeoBug
All of the patients in the hospital where the movie takes place are terminal
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every patient in the hospital that the movie takes place in is chronically ill
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It is mentioned that a woman's father had a stroke.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The ending is pretty sad, though it tries to end on a more bittersweet end.
[Spoilers] The patients end up reverting to their original state
[Spoilers] The patients end up reverting to their original state
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