Awakenings (1990) - You Woke A Person Scene (6/10) | Movieclips

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Leonard (Robert De Niro) asks Dr. Kaufman (John Heard) and the board for permission to take a walk.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, begin responding to certain stimulati. Apprised of the efficacy of a new drug called L-DOPA in treating degenerative-disease victims, Sayer is given permission to test the drug on one of his patients: Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro), who has not communicated with anyone since lapsing into catatonia as a child. Gradually, Lowe comes out of his shell, encouraging Sayers to administer L-DOPA to the other patients under his care. Julie Kavner and John Heard also star.

CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1990)
Cast: Julie Kavner, John Heard, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro
Director: Penny Marshall
Producers: Elliot Abbott, Lawrence Lasker, Amy Lemisch, Penny Marshall, Walter F. Parkes, Arne Schmidt
Screenwriters: Oliver Sacks, Steven Zaillian

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[cjv]

“Mr. Lowe are you aware of your unconscious hostility towards us?”

“How can I be aware of it if it’s unconscious?”

[Usernamenottakenk]

By far De Niros best performance IMO. Just breathtaking.

[mindriot_]

Love him or hate him, De Niro *is* an incredible actor.

[christopherjove]

“Are you aware of the unconscious hostility your exhibiting to us”?
“how could I be aware if it’s unconcious”?
Me:Oooh Leonards gotta good point there.

[o.portista]

What a great movie, done by two legendary actors. This film was said to be Williams top favourite film he enjoyed being apart of, same thing for De Niro. The film literally touches your heart, and teaches you the value of life and how many people take it for granted. God bless Williams and Oliver Sacks. Two heros in a better place now. It's also amazing how Williams a few years later would battle a similar brain trauma/disease. Theres no words that can fully describe this movie. Astonishing. I could say the part that hit me the most was when Leonard had said he couldn't read anymore, and how he told his lover that it was his final time seeing her, like holy there is so much that could be said about the film, just you can't describe it, you can only see the film for yourself. God bless Williams, Sacks and all those patients who had suffered, and battled. Legends. Such an under-rated film. Pure feelings.
7.27.2020

[cidpusa]

“How can I be aware of it if it’s unconscious?”

[darmawanmelodysherinapsfan]

Fun fact; John Heard also plays Peter McCallister

[rrfirefly]

They really should have made more of an effort to accommodate Leonard's simple request. Doctors think they know everything!

[jedhawkins]

What's wrong with letting him come and go as he pleases unless he had an escort with him? Leonard can learn things from the new world as he goes out. You can't treat a cured patient like a prisoner! Just let him go to a movie theater or to the grocery store or to the amusement park and then come back safe and sound with his escort, saying how great his day was. Justice for Leonard.

[helenelizabethparker]

Rip this film means the world to me no recreational drugs or cbd no alcohol ... my grandad parker diagnosed ptsd

[punkrock]

Trying to act smart but completely backfiring 😂

[ChubbyChecker]

This is the prequel to The King Of Comedy.

[DelightLovesMovies]

wow I never seen this movie before but I really want to now

[bearcattony]

I guess the head doctor was afraid Leonard would spend $967 on room service or food or something

[kimmyfreak]

if only cell phones were around then...homie just wanted alone time

[alifakhrzadeh]

I feel bad for De Niro’s character here and furious with the medical staff they really let him down and made him regress. All he wanted was the opportunity to take a little freedom but they made his dream rush holt.

[vegetasolo]

For the movie Robert De Niro filmed a scene with "Lillian T.", the only surviving patient from Oliver Sacks' book, "Awakenings". She was also said to have been the most outspoken patient in the 1973 documentary about the patients, also called "Awakenings

[tomv]

I wouldn't let him out either he could fall and seriously hurt himself I don't think he was a truly aware of how things have really changed.

[stannow]

Oliver Sachs and this great movie takes us into the reality of people suffering, like the great movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, written by Ken Keysey.

We are feeling human beings, which is lost on most psychiatrists. Both Jung and Jacob Moreno broke with Freud because of his dogmatic theories.

There is light in our darkness and Symbols of Transformation that can awaken us to a greater sense of well-being, even when going for a walk.

[adamrobinette]

The shame of it all, was that the clock was ticking, and because of those doctors so much time was wasted not getting to do those things before everything reversed.