Robin Williams plays a character based on Oliver Sacks in the 1990 film Awakenings. The film tells the story of neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (based on Oliver) who discovers the beneficial effects of the drug L-Dopa in 1969. He administers it to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Robert De Niro plays one of his patients. Celebrate the Awakenings opera by watching a live screening of the newly digitized 1990 film Awakenings with Robin Williams and R

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