What disease did the patients have before they recieved the medication? Any known cause?
2007-01-25 12:46:05 · 3 answers · asked by Maninblack 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The plot outline describes the movie as this...
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them
It was based on a nonfiction book by Oliver Sacks, with the character of Sayer based closely on Sacks himself.
2007-01-25 12:57:02 · answer #1 · answered by pipi08_2000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film based on Oliver Sacks' memoir, Awakenings. It tells the true story of a doctor (Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as Malcolm Sayer) who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new drug L-Dopa. He applied it on catatonic patients who survived the 1917-1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica.
2007-01-25 21:43:59 · answer #2 · answered by Zholla 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were catatonic.
2007-01-25 20:51:02 · answer #3 · answered by kristen 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋