“君はいま、30年ぶりに『目覚めの朝』を迎えた…。”
30年の昏睡から目覚めた患者と、彼を救おうとする医師の葛藤を描く人間ドラマ。30年間昏睡状態だった男レナードが、奇跡的に意識を回復した。セイヤー博士の治療が功を奏したのだ。博士はその治療を、他の患者にも適用してめざましい効果をあげるが…。
製作費: $31,000,000 (47億円)
興行収入: $52,096,475 (78億円)
推定収支: $21,096,475 (32億円)
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監督: Penny Marshall
脚本: スティーヴン・ザイリアン / Oliver Sacks
音楽: Randy Newman
制作: Lawrence Lasker / Walter F. Parkes / Elliot Abbott
撮影監督: ミロスラフ・オンドリチェク
***A ‘hospital film’ with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, based on a true story*** A shy doctor (Robin Williams) gets a job at a Bronx hospital in 1969 where he attends to several patients in a catatonic state after the encephalitis epidemic of 1917–28. He experiments with a new drug that offers the hope of reviving them. Robert De Niro plays his key patient, Julie Kavner his nurse and John Heard his supervisor. Penelope Ann Miller is also on hand as a potential romantic interest. "Awakenings” (1990) is based on Oliver Sacks' 1973 memoir of the same name, which chronicled the true event that occurred the summer of ’69. Being a hospital movie about ailing people trying to recover puts it in the same camp as “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” (1975) and “Instinct” (1999), but it’s not as compelling. There’s just not enough human interest beyond the viewer being sympathetic toward the patients’ plight and wanting them to get well. It’s also marred by some blatant predictableness, like Leonard’s name on the bench and the “cup of coffee” aspect. Still, this is a tale that needed to be told and I’m not sorry I watched it. It’s just overrated. The film runs 2 hours and was shot in Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, New York City. GRADE: C+
