The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.


Books with substantial mentioning of Awakenings

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1991, A Survey of the Films of 1990
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991