It Was Nominated For 3 Oscars, But Robert De Niro & Robin Williams’ Excellent 1990 Drama Isn’t Talked About Enough

In 1990, iconic actors Robert De Niro and Robin Williams co-starred in an emotional biographical film called Awakenings, which deserves way more attention than it has gotten 35 years after its release. Awakenings is a movie based on the true story of a doctor who becomes interested in a group of catatonic patients who are wasting away in a Bronx hospital in the 1960s. Believing that their conditions may be an unusual form of Parkinsons, the doctor completes groundbreaking research that changes lives. The movie is based on the memoir of the same name, written by Oliver Sacks.