Sayer is based on Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who wrote various best-selling books recounting case studies of people with neurological disorders, including himself. As detailed in Sacks’ memoir, the drug and experiments shown in the movie are actually real, and despite being a fictional story, Awakenings is a historic medical experiment drama like Them (although not a horror).ĭr. He runs a trial on patient Leonard Lowe (De Niro), who completely “awakens” and starts to show major improvements, but the experiments soon come across some obstacles that threaten the life quality of the patients who were just starting to deal with a new life in a new time. Sayer learns of a new drug that helps patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease and believes it could be of use on catatonic patients. Awakenings follows neurologist Malcolm Sayer ( played by Robin Williams), who, in 1969 while working at a hospital in the Bronx, began extensive research on catatonic patients who survived the 1917-1928 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica.
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