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Motion Picture Critique Of Awakenings

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NUGUID, Jeremiah L MLS 1-1
Ms. Peggy Anne Orbe
Motion Picture Critique of “Awakenings”
Written by: Oliver Sacks, M.D. (original memoir) Steven Zallian (Screenplay)
Directed by: Penny Marshall
The 1990 film production Awakenings was based on the non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks, M.D. which was published in 1973. The motion picture was directed by Penny Marshall with the screenplay written by Steven Zallian. Robert De Niro and the late Robin Williams starred as the main characters of the story. The film was budgeted at thirty-one million dollars and earned an estimated fifty-two million dollars.
Awakenings is set in the Bronx, New York in 1969. Majority of the events occur in Bainbridge Hospital, a mental institution where Dr. Malcolm Sayer
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