| Released | 1990 | Rating | 12 in UK |
| Director | Penny Marshall | Writer/s | Steven Zaillian |
| Starring | Robin Williams, Robert de Nero, Julie Kavner, Max von Sydow, | ||
| Source of story | Book by Oliver Sachs | ||
| Elevator Pitch | A group of people in a nut house, apparently suffering from a type of sleeping sickness, encephalitis, and having been unresponsive for many years, are administered to by a new doctor who gradually, by the use of drugs, wakes them up. His main subject appears to return to a normal life, but then things start to go wrong. | ||
| Content | The drama is in the interaction between the health care workers and those to whom they are ministering. | ||
| A View | A worthwhile, if slighty earnest tale, with little humour. De Nero does well as the recovered, and then deteriorating patient. | ||
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