A drama film Awakenings was directed by Penny Marshal and futuring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams was released in 1990. The film is based on memoirs of Neurologist Oliver Sacks.
The book "Awakenings" was written by Oliver Sacks and first published in 1973. The book is based on the author's experiences working with patients who had encephalitis lethargica, a neurological disorder that had left them in a catatonic state.
Memoirs of a Geisha is based on the time period right before, during and after WW2.It is written in around 1960 to 1970
The duration of Awakenings is 2.02 hours.
There were two Great Awakenings.
Awakenings was created on 1990-12-22.
Awakenings - book - has 408 pages.
Rude Awakenings ended on 2007-04-20.
Rude Awakenings was created on 2007-02-09.
The ISBN of Awakenings - book - is 0-375-70405-1.
From Dr. Sacks' website faq: Q: What happened to the patients and other characters in the AWAKENINGS movie? The movie AWAKENINGS is a fictionalized drama based on Dr. Sacks true account. There is no Dr. Sayer, but Dr. Sacks is still practicing medicine and writing books & articles. There is no Nurse Eleanor. The patient "Leonard" died, as have all the AWAKENINGS patients--but many lived long and relatively rewarding lives. Their real story is told in the book AWAKENINGS .
From Dr. Sacks' website faq: Q: What happened to the patients and other characters in the AWAKENINGS movie? The movie AWAKENINGS is a fictionalized drama based on Dr. Sacks true account. There is no Dr. Sayer, but Dr. Sacks is still practicing medicine and writing books & articles. There is no Nurse Eleanor. The patient "Leonard" died, as have all the AWAKENINGS patients--but many lived long and relatively rewarding lives. Their real story is told in the book AWAKENINGS .
Re Awakenings - 2013 was released on: USA: April 2013