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[[File:Awakenings_3447.jpg|frame|Just being awake can be a miracle.]]
{{quote|''Hello. My name is Leonard Lowe. It has been explained to me that I've been away for quite some time. I'm back.''}}
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The screenplay was written by Steven Zaillian, based on Sacks' book. The book was also used by Harold Pinter as the basis of his one-act play A Kind of Alaska, performed in 1982.
A documentary [[Awakenings (documentary)|by the same name]], featuring interviews with Dr. Sacks and his real-life patients was produced by British television company Yorkshire Television in 1974.
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has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
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** [[Real Life]] has another [[Downer Ending]]. {{spoiler|Sacks got fired.}}
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
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