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The Awakenings Movie Analysis
This is a very inspiring and touching movie. The Awakenings is an American fiction drama film that was release December 12 in the year 1990’s directed by Penny Marshall. This movie is based on a true story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist in America who has the heart of researching/discovering medicine that helped a lot of people to cure their diseases. According to Andrew Clapper (n d), the film is based upon the book with the same name, which was written by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks recommended that his name be changed, and so we follow a fictional Dr. Sayer through the summer of 1969 in the Bronx, New York. Robin Williams portrayed Oliver Sacks as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. In the events of the summer of 1969, there is a pandemic disease

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