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GENERAL
INFORMATION
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directed by - penny
marshall
screenplay by - steve zaillian
music by - randy newman
genre - drama
rating - PG-13
runtime - 121 min
gross - $52,096,475
premiere - december 12, 1990
(century city, ca)
2nd screening - december 17,
1990 (new york, ny)
theatrical release date - december
20 , 1990 (limited)
january
11, 1991 (wide)
dvd release date - september
10, 1997
filming locations - city island, new
york, ny
bronx,
new york, ny
production company - columbia
pictures |
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SUMMARY
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| A new doctor finds himself
with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed
by them and the fact that they have been comatose for
decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible
chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of
them. When the first patient awakes, he is now an adult
having gone into a coma in his early teens. The film
then delights the reactions of their relatives and to
the changes of the newly awakened. |
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QUOTES
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dr. sayer
Earthworms
dr. #1
I'm sorry
dr. sayer
It was an immense project. I was to extract 1 decigram
myelin from 4 tons of earthworms.
dr. #1
Really?
dr. sayer
Yes, I was on that project for 5 years, I was the only
one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't
be done.
dr. #2
It can't.
dr. sayer
I know that now. I proved it.
leonard
It's quiet.
dr. sayer
It's late. Everyone's asleep.
leonard
Oh, I'm not asleep.
dr. sayer
No, you're awake.
dr. sayer
That's the Periodic Table of Elements. I can date my
introduction to science by that. It's wonderful, really.
It's, uh...It's the universe at its essence. You see,
you have your alkaline metals. You have your halogens,
your inert gasses. Every element has its place in that
order. You can't chance that. They're secure, no matter
what.
leonard
You're not married?
dr. sayer
Me? No, I'm not very good with people. I--I never have
been, Leonard. I like them. Maybe, if they were less
unpredictable.
leonard
Eleanor would disagree with you
dr. sayer
Eleanor?
leonard
Miss Costello
dr. sayer
Oh, of course. She has spoken to you about me? What
did she say?
leonard
That you're a kind man. That you care very much for
people.
nurse
Dr. Sayer, something about fruit trees.
woman
Prune the fruit trees.
dr. sayer
I will
woman
Hartelijk bedankt.
dr. sayer
Lucy, what year is it?
lucy
What year is it? It's '26, silly.
dr. sayer
I have always loved carnegia, haven't you?
anthony
Dr. Sayer, did you choose this place? Why?
dr. sayer
I always come here.
anthony
Why? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a nice place,
but after the first hour it loses something.
dr. sayer
Miss Costello, anthony thinks the group is bored.
eleanor
They are.
dr. sayer
I thought about taking them to the Opera House.
anthony
The Opera..?
dr. sayer
Or the museum of Natural History?
eleanor
Oh, no no no no, I don't think so. There's a lot of
dead, stuffed things there.
dr. sayer
What else is there? |
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MAIN
CAST
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robin williams
- dr. malcolm sayer
robert de niro - leonard lowe
julie kavner - eleanor costello
ruth nelson - mrs. lowe
alice drummond - lucy fishman
keith diamond - anthony
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INTERNATIONAL
RELEASE DATES
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germany - february
14, 1991
austria - february 15, 1991
france - february 20, 1991
argentina - february 21, 1991
finland - march 01, 1991
netherlands - march 08, 1991
sweden - march 08, 1991
australia - march 14, 1991
uk - march 15, 1991
japan - april 13, 1991
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INTERNATIONALLY
USED TITLES
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Argentina / Portugal / Spain - despertares
Canada / France - l'éveil
Austria / Germany - zeit des
erwachens
Hungary - ébredések
Czechoslovakia - cas probuzení
Finland - heräämisiä
Norway - oppvåkningen
Slovenia - prebujenja
Poland - przebudzenia
Italy - risvegli
Brazil - tempo de despertar
Sweden - uppvaknanden
Greece - xypnimata |
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