Awakenings

Drama

Robert De Niro	Leonard Lowe
Robin Williams	Dr. Malcolm Sayer
Julie Kavner	Eleanor Costello
Ruth Nelson	Mrs. Lowe
John Heard	Dr. Kaufman
Penelope Ann Miller	Paula
Alice Drummond	Lucy
Judith Malina	Rose
Barton Heyman	Bert
George Martin	Frank

Director	Penny Marshall
Producer	Lawrence Lasker; Amy Lemisch
Writer	Oliver Sacks; Steven Zaillian

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.