What is Awakenings?
{{Infobox film | name = Awakenings | image = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Penny Marshall]] | producer = [[Walter F. Parkes]]<br />[[Lawrence Lasker]] | screenplay = [[Steven Zaillian]] | based_on = {{Based on|''[[Awakenings (book)|Awakenings]]''|[[Oliver Sacks]]}} | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Robert De Niro]] * [[Robin Williams]] * [[Julie Kavner]] * [[John Heard (actor)|John Heard]] * [[Penelope Ann Miller]] * [[Max von Sydow]] * [[Anne Meara]] * [[Judith Malina]] }} | music = [[Randy Newman]] | cinematography = [[Miroslav Ondříček|Miroslav Ondricek]] | editing = Battle Davis<br />[[Gerald B. Greenberg|Jerry Greenberg]] | studio = Lasker/Parkes Productions | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] | released = {{Movie date|1990|12|22}} | runtime = 121&nbsp;minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $31 million | gross = $52,096,475 }} '''''Awakenings''''' is a 1990 American drama movie set in a [[psychiatric hospital]] in 1969 in [[the Bronx]]. It is based on [[Oliver Sacks]]' 1973 book ''Awakenings''. It tells the true story of [[British people|British]] [[neurologist]] [[Oliver Sacks]], fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer and portrayed by [[Robin Williams]]. The movie also stars [[Robert De Niro]], [[Judith Malina]], and [[Max von Sydow]]. {{movie-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Awakenings}} [[Category:1990 drama movies]] [[Category:American drama movies]] [[Category:English-language movies]] [[Category:Movies based on books]] [[Category:Movies based on real life events]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1960s]] [[Category:The Bronx]] [[Category:Columbia Pictures movies]] [[Category:Movies directed by Penny Marshall]] [[Category:Movies set in psychiatric hospitals]] [[Category:Movies about schizophrenia]]