Awakenings (based on a true story)

Here is an oldie but a goodie. A real tear jerker. DeNiro shaking his way back into a coma. Robin Williams apparently on sedatives and not overacting, just lots of smiling when his patients come to life.

Set in the early part of the second half of the 20th century reveals that there are all white patients except for one Black man, who, of course, doesn't speak even after awakening. No my friends, his voice is the Piano! Just what we need, another inarticulate Black man in the Pictures with a great talent for musicianship.

Folks must have gone crazy for Ray when it came out. Oh yeah, they did.

but anyways, otherwise makes me wonder... here is this guy who wants to do experiments on these white patients but can't do it without consent of the caretakers and the families and the other doctors and the like. If those were some dark patients, they would have them pumped full of all kinds of shit! go back and look at the Tuskegee Experiment and such similar instances of crazy white Docs experimenting on Black and Brown patients, with or without their consent.

Yeah, if those were some dark patients you rest assured you would be crying at the end, but for a different reason than this one.

All in all, i give it a 5/10. the only Black guy in it is the hip, jive talkin orderly and the only black woman is the lazy nurse. If you are Black or Brown this movie isn't about you.