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1 Awakenings (Drama) ( 1990) © 2000 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Dr. Malcolm Sayer………………………………………….Robin Williams A very shy and gentle research neurologist (a person who studies the brain and nervous system) who comes to work at the Bainbridge Hospital, where there are many patients who have been in a sleep-like (comatose) state for 30 or more years. Eleanor Costello………………………………………..……Julie Kavner A sweet nurse at the hospital who supports Dr. Sayer in his work with the hospital’s patients. Leonard Lowe………………………………………….……..Robert De Niro A patient who has been basically “asleep” at the hospital for three decades (from 1939 to 1969), who is dramatically woken by the use of an experimental drug that Dr. Sayer decides to try. Dr. Kaufman…………………………………………………..John Heard The head of the Neurology Department at the hospital who is very cynical about trying to wake the comatose patients. Mrs. Lowe……………………………………………………….Ruth Nelson Leonard’s mom, who agrees to let Dr. Sayer try to wake her son. Lucy………………………………………………………………..Alice Drummond Another patient at the hospital, who has been asleep since 1926! Paula……………………………………………………………….Penelope Ann Miller The daughter of one of the hospital’s patients, who meets Leonard while visiting her father and begins a brief friendship with him. Plot Summary This is the true story of a well known neurologist who decided to use an experimental drug in the late 1960s to see if he could “wake” a group of patients that had fallen into a sleep-like state in the 1920s and 30s, due to a horrible disease that had spread mysteriously throughout the United States. In ways that are still not understood, this disease, caused by