Awakenings

This is the story of a neurologist Sayer(played by Robin Williams) who tries to solve a intricate pathological situation related to a set of patients who survived the Encephalitis Lethargica (also known as Sleeping Sickness) outbreak in 1920s. But almost all these patients who survived this disease were in a catatonic state ever since. Sayer was hired to diagnose and treat this condition. This movie depicts the struggle of patients to fight and the struggle of doctors to treat some of the impossible diseases. Robert De Niro plays the protagonist (Leonardo) as one of the patients on whom Slayer experiments using a new drug called L Dopa which is actually devised to treat Parkinsonian patients. Sayer somehow believes that this drug will eventually awaken the catatonic state of the patients. So he goes onto try this drug on Leonardo. After he tries this drug several interesting miracles take place during the course of the movie. Both Robin Williams nd De Niro were at their best ..a mus see..