Awakenings (1990)

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Robert De Niro as Leonard Lowe • Robin Williams as Malcolm Sayer • John Heard as Dr. Kaufman • Julie Kavner as Eleanor Costello • Penelope Ann Miller as Paula • Ruth Nelson as Mrs. Lowe • Max von Sydow as Peter Ingham

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a r...

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1. Tag, you're it.

2. You're it.

3. No, I tagged you last.

4. Want to go fishing?

5. There's no fish.

6. They're frozen.

7. They don't freeze.

8. Do they die?

9. Hey, look at this car!

10. Wow, isn't that neat?

11. It's got to be a ford.

12. No, it's not a ford.

13. Then what is it?

14. It's not a ford.

15. I've been in one.

16. Hey, Leonard, what are you doing?

17. What's it look like?

18. Somebody might be coming.

19. Keep a look out, James.

20. No one's coming.

21. My turn's next.

22. Uh-uh, uh-uh.

23. What's wrong, Leonard?

24. Leonard, honey.

25. What?

26. You better get dressed.

27. Breakfast is just about ready.

28. Hey.

29. Hi, albert.

30. James.

31. We're going to begin today with a history test.

32. Keep your eyes on your own papers

33. and at the recess bell

34. Bring your composition books up to my desk.

35. So, what are we going to do this afternoon?

36. Mrs. Oh, hello, boys.

37. Mrs. Lowe, can Leonard play today?

38. Uh, no, I'm sorry.

39. How about tomorrow?

40. I'm afraid he won't be well by then either.

41. When will he be well?

42. I don't know.

43. Thanks for coming by.

44. Good morning, Bainbridge hospital.

45. May I help you?

46. One moment, please.

47. Excuse me...

48. You got to ask her.

49. Good morning, Bainbridge hospital.

50. May I help you?

51. Dr. Horowitz, hold the line.

52. Bainbridge hospital.

53. Can I help you?

54. Dr. Franklin and Dr. Tyler...

55. are in a board meeting.

56. Yes.

57. Uh, yes, I'm... I'm Dr. Malcolm Sayer.

58. I have an appointment.

59. Take a seat, please.

60. Bainbridge hospital.

61. May I help you?

62. Thank you.

63. Bainbridge hospital.

64. May I help you?

65. I can connect you to the cafeteria

66. But then they will have to page him.

67. Thank you.

68. Bainbridge hospital.

69. May I help you?

70. Dr. Franklin and Dr. Tyler...

71. are in the boardroom.

72. When you say people

73. do you mean living people?

74. Mm-hmm.

75. Well, I'm here to apply for a research position...

76. in your neurology lab.

77. Neurology lab?

78. We have an x-ray room.

79. This is a chronic hospital, doctor.

80. The position...

81. is for staff neurologist.

82. You will be working with patients, people.

83. A doctor doctor.

84. Doctor.

85. The carmel institute?

86. Anything with patients there?

87. Earthworms.

88. I'm sorry?

89. I was to extract one decigram of myelin...

90. from four tons of earthworms.

91. Really?

92. I was on that project for five years.

93. Everyone said it couldn't...

94. be done.

95. It can't.

96. I know that now.

97. I proved it.

98. Maybe before...

99. at St. Thomas...

100. All research?

101. Oh, yes.

102. Ben, we're understaffed here.

103. His research talents...

104. would be wasted here, sir.

105. Excuse me.

106. But I think you're clearly looking for someone...

107. with more of a clinical background.

108. As much as I need a job...

109. there must be a hundred more applicants.

110. Thank you, anyway.

111. Dr. Sayer

112. You couldn't have graduated from medical school...

113. without some clinical experience.

114. You took a pulse, you took a temperature.

115. You did diagnosis.

116. Oh.

117. There you have it.

118. You do want the job

119. Don't you?

120. Hey, it's this way, doc.

121. You spend much time at chronic hospitals?

122. I...

123. You'd remember.

124. Guess not then.

125. Hey, christina.

126. You see, doc

127. We got M.S., Tourette's syndrome

128. Parkinson's disease.

129. Some we ain't even got a name for.

130. What are they waiting for?

131. Nothing.

132. How will they get well?

133. They're not, they're chronic.

134. We call this the garden.

135. Why?

136. 'Cause all we do is feed and water them.

137. Thanks, man.

138. Mr. Kean, I would like to ask you...

139. I was born...

140. in 1911 in kingsbridge, New york!

141. I came here in July, 1955!

142. Prior to July, 1955, I resided

143. At the Brooklyn psychiatric center.

144. Prior to that, I was a person!

145. Gets easier.

146. You don't think it will, but it does.

147. Oh, no, buttercup.

148. Oh, good.

149. No, go to your house.

150. Go home!

151. Good.

152. Good morning, doctor.

153. I have a new arrival for you.

154. She was brought in

155. late last night.

156. Here's her file.

157. Hello.

158. I'm Dr. Sayer.

159. Do you know where you are?

160. Can you hear me?

161. "diagnosis."

162. "medical insurance."

163. Oh, god.

164. Her name is Lucy Fishman.

165. She was found by neighbors...

166. with her sister ...

167. several days after her sister died.

168. She has no other living relatives.

169. They say she has always been this way

170. with no response or comprehension.

171. And yet...

172. A reflex.

173. If she batted it away, I might call it a reflex.

174. But she caught it.

175. It's still a reflex.

176. If you were right, I would agree with you.

177. It's as if...

178. having lost all will of her own...

179. in which to act

180. She borrows the will of the ball.

181. The will of the ball?

182. Excuse me.

183. Trying to make a good impression

184. Right, doctor?

185. That's it, isn't it?

186. You're still settling in.

187. Miss costello, see that Dr. Sayer's patients...

188. are rescheduled for tomorrow.

189. Yes, sir.

190. Borrows the will of the ball.

191. That's great.

192. Okay.

193. Thanks.

194. Let us know if she catches anything else.

195. I'll be fired.

196. I'll go back to school.

197. Did I forget something?

198. No. I just wanted to say to you

199. I preferred your explanation

200. And that I'll look after things for you...

201. until you've settled in.

202. Good night, doctor.

203. Thank you.

204. Thank you very much.

205. Hello.

206. Hi.

207. I'm Dr. Sayer.

208. I'm waheedah.

209. How are you today?

210. I'm fine.

211. Yes.

212. Oh, sorry.

213. Um, what form?

214. Yes, I'll hold.

215. Mm-hmm.

216. three, two.

217. Oh, thank you.

218. Bye.

219. Hello.

220. Contact.

221. Roger.

222. Yippie! We made it, orville.

223. We're in orbit.

224. Oh, goody.

225. Now we can try being weightless.

226. Let's celebrate with delicious nestle's quick.

227. Nothing makes chocolatey milk like quick, you know?

228. That great nestle's chocolate flavor is out of this world.

229. Out of this world.

230. Hello up there.

231. Time to recharge with delicious nestle's quick.

232. - N-e-s-t-l-e-s, Nestle's makes the very best ~

233. - Chocolate. ~

234. Lucy.

235. Um, you're out, oh...

236. Um...

237. Um, could..?

238. Anthony.

239. Anthony, could you help me...

240. Move this?

241. Excuse me.

242. Lucy, you're almost there.

243. Come on.

244. Here's the water, Lucy.

245. Here it is, Lucy.

246. The water is...

247. It must be all that jell-o they give you.

248. Jell-o, jell-o

249. Day after day.

250. Red jell-o, yellow jell-o.

251. Every day jell-o.

252. Hurry up.

253. You don't want to miss the laundry truck.

254. I forgot to tell you Mrs. Cooper passed away.

255. Remember her?

256. She was nice.

257. Always a kind word.

258. Her dog I could have done without.

259. Excuse me.

260. Hello.

261. Does he ever speak to you?

262. Of course not.

263. Not in words.

264. He speak to you in other ways?

265. How do you mean?

266. You don't have children.

267. No.

268. If you did, you would know.

269. This is "atypical schizophrenia."

270. "atypical hysteria," this one.

271. "atypical nerve impairment."

272. "no change since last examination."

273. "no change or therapy recommended."

274. That's very nice.

275. This one is "no change" dated 9-11-44.

276. Sorry.

277. That's 25 years.

278. You'd think all these atypical somethings...

279. would amount to a typical something

280. But a typical what?

281. Doctor, want to go for a cup of coffee somewhere

282. Or something?

283. Tea?

284. Oh, normally I would say yes.

285. I made other plans.

286. Right, right, right.

287. Well, some other time.

288. Oh, yes.

289. I'm over here.

290. I'm right there.

291. Good night. Good night.

292. "encephalitis lethargica."

293. "encephalitis lethargica."

294. I'm sorry, doctor.

295. I thought someone left the lights on.

296. I found the connection.

297. They all survived encephalitis

298. Years before they came here in the 1920s.

299. That's very nice.

300. Isn't it wonderful?

301. I'll come back later.

302. Please.

303. How many have you found there?

304. Five, and, uh, I believe there are more.

305. How are they?

306. Just as you described them back then—

307. "insubstantial as ghosts."

308. Only, I guess many of them were children then.

309. Yes.

310. Children who fell asleep.

311. Most died during the acute stage of the illness.

312. Those who survived...

313. who awoke

314. seemed fine, as though nothing had happened.

315. We just didn't realize...

316. how much the infection had damaged the brain.

317. Years went by—

318. five, ten, fifteen—

319. before these strange neurological symptoms

320. would appear

321. But they did.

322. I began to see them in the early 1930s.

323. Old people brought in by their children.

324. Young people brought in by their parents.

325. They could no longer dress themselves...

326. or feed themselves.

327. They could no longer speak...

328. in most cases.

329. Some families went mad.

330. People who were normal...

331. were now...

332. elsewhere.

333. What's it like to be them?

334. What are they thinking?

335. They're not.

336. The virus didn't spare their higher faculties.

337. We know that for a fact?

338. Yes.

339. Because?

340. Because the alternative is unthinkable.

341. I'm for fixing this place up

342. But what are we doing?

343. I have a hunch.

344. Excuse me.

345. What's been stopping Lucy from crossing...

346. to the fountain?

347. Nothing.

348. Exactly. The visual field just stops.

349. There's a void.

350. There's no pattern.

351. Nothing to compel her to keep going.

352. So we're making something.

353. Exactly.

354. All right, Lucy.

355. She's...

356. Oh, she's looking out the...

357. Where is it?

358. This isn't the right issue.

359. This is last year's.

360. I'd like to know more about your son.

361. Certainly.

362. Something was wrong, they said, with his hands.

363. He couldn't write anymore.

364. He couldn't do the work.

365. I should take him

366. Out of school, they said.

367. He was 11.

368. Slowly, he got worse.

369. He'd call me and I'd come in.

370. He'd be sitting at his desk...

371. in a trance.

372. One hour, two hours.

373. Then he'd be okay again.

374. One day

375. I came home from work, found him in his bed.

376. He kept saying, "mom, mom."

377. His... his arm like this, reaching.

378. What do you want, Leonard?

379. He never spoke again.

380. It was like he disappeared.

381. Later that year, I took him to bainbridge.

382. It was november 14, 1939.

383. He was 20 years old.

384. What did he do for those nine years

385. He was staying in this room, Mrs. Lowe?

386. He read.

387. He loved to read.

388. He read all the time.

389. Really?

390. That's all he could do.

391. That's enough.

392. Leonard?

393. All right, Leonard, we're finished.

394. Nothing, nothing, nothing and nothing.

395. Don't tell me— It's one of your statues.

396. Exactly.

397. How did I guess that?

398. Pass the salt.

399. But what about this?

400. What do you mean this?

401. It's a strobe.

402. You're wrong.

403. All of this before is the strobe.

404. This is me saying his name...

405. to him.

406. Excuse me.

407. What does that mean?

408. Hey!

409. Sorry.

410. Right down the middle.

411. Hum it in there.

412. Hum it in there.

413. Home run.

414. I can catch a ball.

415. Hey, doc, throw me the ball.

416. Throw me the ball.

417. Throw me the ball.

418. I can catch a ball.

419. Doc!

420. Hey!

421. Is this all of them?

422. Yes.

423. Bring them in with the others.

424. I should have given David his divorce.

425. I just thought he'd want to be a father to his son.

426. Excuse me.

427. The patients have all been given their morning medication.

428. That's good.

429. Dr. Sayer was hoping you'd have some free time.

430. Want to come with me, please?

431. Beth?

432. Yeah.

433. This is one of the most beautiful arias ever written.

434. Watch them closely for any reactions.

435. "call me Ishmael."

436. "years ago...

437. "never mind how long precisely

438. "having little or no money in my purse

439. and nothing particular to interest me on shore..."

440. Leonard, I know you can hear me.

441. I want you to try and respond when I speak your name.

442. It's not just any music.

443. It has to be the music that's right for them.

444. It's like they only move by music that moves them.

445. I haven't found anything that moves bert yet.

446. They'll sit there like that all day if I let them.

447. I have to play the first card.

448. "L".

449. Leonard.

450. "L"

451. - Excuse me while I kiss the sky ~

452. - Purple haze all around ~

453. - Don't know if I'm traveling up or down ~

454. - Never happy ~

455. - Or in misery ~

456. - Whatever it is ~

457. - That girl put a spell on me ~

458. This is Frank.

459. If you could just help me get him to his feet.

460. There's something else that reaches him, doctor.

461. What?

462. Human contact.

463. If you could just stand over there for a minute.

464. He can't walk without me.

465. If I let go of him, he'll fall.

466. I'm not going to let you fall.

467. But he'll walk with me anywhere.

468. It's like the ball

469. Only it's my will he's borrowing.

470. The will of another human being.

471. You begin by moving the pointer to "L" for Leonard.

472. Now, when I sense you begin to move the pointer

473. I'll stop and you take over.

474. Do you understand?

475. All right, I'm beginning.

476. Very good.

477. Um, no.

478. Maybe I didn't make myself clear.

479. My fault.

480. I, uh...

481. Um...

482. "I."

483. Oh, good, good.

484. Now the "e."

485. "k".

486. Dyslexia.

487. "e."

488. Good, good.

489. "s."

490. "p."

491. You're spelling something else.

492. "His gaze from staring through the bars has grown so weary

493. "that it can take in nothing more.

494. "for him, it is as though there were a thousand bars

495. "and behind the thousand bars, no world

496. "as he paces in cramped circles, over and over

497. "his powerful strides are like a ritual dance around a center

498. "where a great will stands paralyzed.

499. "at times, the curtains of the eye lift without a sound

500. "and a shape enters

501. "slips through the tightened silence of the shoulders...

502. reaches the heart and dies."

503. Have you heard of a drug called L-Dopa?

504. What?

505. It's a synthetic dopamine.

506. Oh, yes, I did.

507. For parkinson's patients.

508. Why?

509. Nothing.

510. Man on megaphone: Sign the petition now.

511. Thousands of young men are dying every day.

512. Help us get out of this war.

513. Sign up now.

514. 100 years would have to pass before modern neuropathology

515. would even allow us to actually locate the damage

516. in the parkinsonian brain.

517. Yes.

518. With our development of the drug L-Dopa

519. We can for the first time...

520. promise the parkinsonian patient a more normal life.

521. By administering L-D...

522. Thank you.

523. Yes, um, I'm very curious about this drug

524. And I wonder if you've come across anyone who might have...

525. Excuse me.

526. Doctor..?

527. Sayer.

528. I'm curious if you've come across...

529. any patients with encephalitis.

530. After I'm through Dr. Sayer

531. If you wouldn't mind.

532. Excuse me.

533. Well, as I was saying...

534. by administering L-Dopa...

535. Do you think a simple parkinsonian tremor...

536. taken to its furthest extreme

537. would appear as no tremor at all?

538. Are you talking to me?

539. Oh, yes.

540. Imagine that you accelerated...

541. a simple parkinsonian hand tremor

542. to the point of immobility.

543. Suppose there's a patient...

544. with all the parkinsonian compulsions accelerated—

545. The hand tremor, the head bobbing, ticking

546. Quickening of speech—

547. Might they not

548. All cave in on themselves...

549. and, in effect, turn a person into stone?

550. I don't know.

551. Maybe.

552. Well, do you think L-Dopa...

553. would help the situation?

554. Dr. Sayer

555. Right?

556. I'm just a chemist, doctor.

557. You're the physician.

558. I'll leave it to you to do the damage.

559. Freud believed in miracles...

560. prescribing cocaine like it was candy.

561. We believed in the miracle of cortisone

562. until our patients went psychotic on it.

563. Now it's L-Dopa?

564. With all due respect

565. I think it's rather too soon to say that.

566. With all due respect

567. I think it's rather way too soon to say that.

568. Let the chemist do the damage, doctor.

569. But I...

570. Dr. Kaufman?

571. Yeah.

572. Did you read this case?

573. "new drug lets shaking palsy patients eat jell-o."

574. Yes, I read them, doctor.

575. I read them all— dutifully, soberly.

576. All 30 cases had parkinson's.

577. Mild parkinson's.

578. Your parkies, doctor—

579. If that's what they are— haven't moved in decades.

580. Perhaps

581. You should look at it again, sir.

582. You know better than to make a leap like that.

583. You want there to be a connection.

584. That doesn't mean there is one.

585. What I believe—

586. what I know—

587. is these people are alive inside.

588. How do you know that, doctor?

589. Because they catch tennis balls?

590. I know it.

591. Some.

592. One.

593. One.

594. With the family's consent...

595. signed.

596. Leonard has Parkinson's disease?

597. No.

598. Um, well, his symptoms are like parkinson's

599. But, then again, they're not.

600. Then what will this medicine do for him?

601. I don't know what it will do for him, if anything at all.

602. What do you think it will do?

603. I'm not sure

604. Because it was designed for a totally different disorder.

605. What do you hope it will do?

606. I hope it will bring him back from wherever he is.

607. To what?

608. To the world.

609. What's there here for him after all these years?

610. You.

611. You're here.

612. All of it.

613. Please.

614. With 200 milligrams he showed no response.

615. Maybe the acid in the juice neutralized it.

616. Maybe he needs more.

617. Maybe he needs less.

618. I'll try it in milk.

619. 500 milligrams.

620. I'll call

621. If there's any change.

622. Yes.

623. Thank you.

624. Night, sarah.

625. Good night.

626. It's...

627. Quiet.

628. It's late.

629. Everyone's asleep.

630. I'm not asleep.

631. No, you're awake.

632. May I?

633. Me.

634. Leonard.

635. There's someone here to see you.

636. Ma.

637. Ma.

638. Mom.

639. Oh, my baby.

640. Oh...

641. My name is Eleanor.

642. Eleanor.

643. It's a pleasure to meet you.

644. It's a pleasure to meet you.

645. Ladies?

646. Ladies?

647. Now what did I do?

648. Oh, my goodness.

649. How do you do, sir?

650. My name is Margaret.

651. Margaret.

652. Beth.

653. Beth.

654. Anthony.

655. Anthony, how are you?

656. Great, man.

657. How are you?

658. Great too.

659. All right, man.

660. Did you meet him?

661. Don't he look good?

662. Yeah.

663. Mrs. Don't eat so fast.

664. He's doing fine.

665. He's starving.

666. I couldn't deal with losing 30 years of my life.

667. I can't even imagine it.

668. Potatoes?

669. He does realize it, doesn't he?

670. Leonard, if you could turn this way please.

671. This is a camera called a Polaroid.

672. Thank you.

673. It takes a picture in less than a minute.

674. Amazing.

675. Now, if we could try this.

676. Splendid.

677. That's wonderful.

678. I'd like you to walk now...

679. to the end of the room.

680. Ready?

681. Go.

682. Very good.

683. Very good.

684. And back now.

685. That was very quick.

686. Let me get some more film.

687. You have to at least lay down.

688. You need the rest.

689. I'm afraid to close my eyes.

690. If I close my eyes, I'll...

691. You will sleep.

692. And when you wake up in the morning

693. It will be the next morning.

694. I promise.

695. - Baby's boat ~

696. - A silver moon ~

697. - Sailing in the sky ~

698. - Baby's fishing for a dream ~

699. - Fishing near and far ~

700. - Sail, baby, sail

701. - Out upon that sea ~

702. - Only don't forget to sail back again to me ~

703. - Baby's fishing for a dream ~

704. - Fishing near and far ~

705. - His line a silver moonbeam is ~

706. ~His fate a silver star~

707. ~Sail, baby, sail~

708. ~Out upon that sea~

709. ~Only don't forget to sail back again to me~

710. ~Baby's boat~

711. ~The silver moon~

712. ~Sailing in the sky~

713. ~Baby's fishing for a dream~

714. ~Fishing near and far~

715. ~Sail, baby, sail~

716. ~Out upon that sea~

717. - Only don't forget to sail back again to me.~

718. What a wonderful place the Bronx has become.

719. That's my school.

720. Really?

721. Is that classical?

722. You can pick any type of music you want.

723. - It's the time... ~

724. What's that?

725. Rock and roll.

726. Yeah?

727. Eh...

728. - ... when love runs high ~

729. - In this time give it to me easy ~

730. - And let me try with pleasured hands ~

731. - To take you in the sun to promised lands ~

732. - To show you everyone ~

733. - It's the time of the season for loving ~

734. Okay, boy, go get it.

735. - What's your name? ~

736. - What's your name? ~

737. - Who's your daddy? ~

738. - Who's your daddy? ~

739. - Is he rich like me? ~

740. - Has he taken ~

741. - Has he taken ~

742. - Any time ~

743. - Any time ~

744. - To show you what you need to live? ~

745. - Tell it to me slowly ~

746. - Tell you why ~

747. - I really want to know ~

748. - It's the time of the season for loving ~

749. - What's your name..? ~

750. Come on in.