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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Is there bestiality?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The other doctors tell Dr. Sayer that he is wrong about the patients being conscious
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Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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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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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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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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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is someone choked?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A schizophrenic person repeatedly has periods of unconsciousness.
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there amputation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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One of the characters uses an electric razor to shave
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Anonymous
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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Children
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
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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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Does a non-human character die?
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Disability
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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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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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One of the patients mentions their parents having died while they were unresponsive. Its barely noticeable
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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It is only mentioned, nothing is really shown.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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You can see the sea in several scenes
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
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Near the end of the film we see Leonard having his incontinence wear changed
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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The entire movie takes place in a mental institution
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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The whole film takes place in a hospital
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Leonard becomes paranoid due to his condition and attacks Dr. Sayer
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Sid
The patients are effected by spending so long paralysed and struggle to adjust to life
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Is there misophonia?
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Does someone self harm?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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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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Is there shakey cam?
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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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Is there screaming?
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LeoBug
one patient starts screaming after Dr. Sayer talks to her
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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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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Pregnancy
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Are there abortions?
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Is there childbirth?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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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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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Is there hate speech?
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Race
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Relationships
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LeoBug
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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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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RamenDestroyer
It is mentioned that a woman's father had a stroke.
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LeoBug
every patient in the hospital that the movie takes place in is chronically ill
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There’s one character who may have alzheimers, or at least symptoms very similar to alzheimers
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All of the patients in the hospital where the movie takes place are terminal
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Social
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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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
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Does a car crash?
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there gun violence?
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