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AwakeningsLists: Best Picture nominee 1990 to 1999, Drama, ComedyBrief Synopsis: "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." Overall Ranking: 769 (Rank from 1990: # 7)
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| Reviewer | Rating | Review | Secondary Ratings |
| Sober Film Critic James Brown | 88 | - This movie could have been a typical something that fails to capture the beauty and tragedy of this once-in-a-lifetime occurrence in another director's hands. Instead, Awakenings is an atypical something that demonstrates the tremendous will of the human spirit in Marshall's hands. (full review) | |
| Jim Carrier | 81 | - DeNiro & Robin Williams made a good duo in this movie about patients that have been catatonic for years & are given a new persciption drug that is supposed to bring them out of it. One of DeNiro's most underrated roles. | Comedy: 4 Sex Appeal: 0 Scary: 0 Rewatch: 7 |
| Dan O'Neill | 80 | (full review) | |
| David Baruffi | 80 | ||
| Rob from GuysFilmQuest | 80 | Comedy: 3 Sex Appeal: 0 Scary: 3 Rewatch: 4 | |
| Lisa Marie Bowman | 75 | - Sentimental and sweet. It's impossible not to cheer a little for Awakenings. (full review) |