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Summary: Very Touchy
Review: This movie deserves much more publicity than this. Both Robert De Niro and Robin Williams are great actors and they both did a great job... you feel their emotions are so close and real.This type of movie lives with you for days after you watch it. And you just can't stop thinking of it. And what makes it more powerful is that it is a real story. This movie has no special effects at all except for its highly driven emotions. I truly recommend watching this movie.
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Summary: The Power Of Acting
Review: This movie is probably one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Who'd of thought that Robin Williams and Robert De Niro could make as good a duo as this. The emotion let out in this film is like none I've ever seen before. Robert De Niro is amazing as the patient in the hospital. You wont hear a lot out of him in the first quarter but once he starts, you'll wonder is he's the one acting or not. The dramatic power int this movie is just amazing. So for those of you who like to be touched inside, grab a box of kleenex and prepare to shed some tears, this movie's for you.
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Summary: Woh
Review: This the only movie that ever made me cry and kept me thinking about it a week after I saw it. You do not want to miss this. Robin Willaims is great and Robert De Niro is simply amazing as Leonard Lowe.This right away became a favorite of mine.
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Summary: Terrific Movie
Review: This was one of the best movies I ever had the pleasure of watching. It is a true touching story and it is very moving. Boh Robin Williams and Robert De Niro put forth excellent performances. Although, Robert DeNiro should take all the glory for this one. He portrayed his part beyound stellar. Two Thumbs up all the way!
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Summary: Outstanding Movie
Review: This was one of the most outstanding movies I have ever seen. I have just resently seen this movie for the first time and I could watch it over and over again. I was touched by this movie,and was inspired in so many ways! I give it 5 stars and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: DeNiro, Williams in a poignant human drama
Review: Undeniably one of the industry's most underrated directors, Penny Marshall attained lofty heights in 1990 with this poignant and true drama about one doctor's (Robin Williams, in a brilliant dramatic performance) awakening his own soul to the risk of love while literally awakening patients in a New York chronic care hospital in the late 1960's. Based on Dr. Oliver W. Sacks' novel of the same time and based on his professional experience, "Awakenings" is one doctor's triumph in identifying (by accident) the correct chemical balance in the drug L-Dopa to bring sufferers of a sleeping sickness that totally immobilizes them to life. As Leonard, Robert DeNiro is the shiniest of the wonder drug's triumphs, and DeNiro glimmers in one of the most compelling and humane performances of his magnificent career. But the miracle begins to wane all too soon, and both Dr. Sayer and Leonard painfully prepare for the day when Leonard and his fellow sufferers lapse again into their immobilized state. The film's scenes that lead to that devastation are real, honest and painfully moving and don't insult us with phony sentimentality. But in the process, Leonard instills in his and his fellow patients' caregivers a sense of humanity for their suffering, and Dr. Sayer manages to find the courage to risk loving something other than his work. In a supporting role as the object of Leonard's rediscovered love, Penelope Ann Miller is tremendous. It is little wonder the film was a favorite with multiple Oscar nominations, and DeNiro and Williams are at their best here. But it is director Marshall's vision of the fragility of human life and love and the power of that which is the focus of her film, and her vision is powerfully moving and humbling.
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Summary: A Great moving movie!!!
Review: Very moving, emotional, and a perfect contradiction of today's patient
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