Awakenings - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Awakenings"
Awakenings (1990)
Timing:
2:0 (120 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Walter F. Parkes
Producer
Lawrence Lasker
Producer
Executive Producer
Arne Schmidt
Executive Producer
Elliot Abbott
Executive Producer
Casting
Editor
Gerald B. Greenberg
Editor
Battle Davis
Editor
Art Direction
Bill Groom
Art Direction
Costume Design
Cynthia Flynt
Costume Design
Production Design
Anton Furst
Production Design
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Ilona Herman
Makeup Artist
Bernadette Mazur
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Matthew Iadarola
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gary C. Bourgeois
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
Additional Editing
Jere Huggins
Additional Editing
Unit Production Manager
Timothy M. Bourne
Unit Production Manager
Associate Producer
Amy Lemisch
Associate Producer
Second Assistant Director
Glen Trotiner
Second Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Tom Priestley Jr.
Camera Operator
Assistant Art Director
Alan E. Muraoka
Assistant Art Director
Property Master
Robert Griffon Jr.
Property Master
Supervising Sound Editor
Jerry Ross
Supervising Sound Editor
Script Supervisor
Supervising ADR Editor
Beth Bergeron
Supervising ADR Editor
Hairstylist
Scott W. Farley
Hairstylist
Ilona Herman
Hairstylist
William A. Farley
Hairstylist
Still Photographer
Louis Goldman
Still Photographer
First Assistant Director
Tony Gittelson
First Assistant Director
Assistant Costume Designer
George Potts
Assistant Costume Designer
Thanks
Tracy Reiner
Thanks
Yakov Sklyansky
Thanks
Ed. Weinberger
Thanks
Jack Winter
Thanks
Chief Lighting Technician
Richard Quinlan
Chief Lighting Technician
Boom Operator
Linda Murphy
Boom Operator
Screenplay
First Assistant Editor
Kathryn Camp
First Assistant Editor
Construction Coordinator
Ron Petagna
Construction Coordinator
Assistant Editor
Suzanne Pillsbury
Assistant Editor
Debbie Goldsmith
Assistant Editor
Art Department Assistant
Sarah Knowles
Art Department Assistant
Lynn Nigro
Art Department Assistant
Foley Editor
David Williams
Foley Editor
Mark Pappas
Foley Editor
Book
Oliver Sacks
Book
Location Manager
Leadman
Gerald DeTitta
Leadman
Production Accountant
Margaret Mitchell
Production Accountant
Music
Music Editor
Laura Perlman
Music Editor
James Flamberg
Music Editor
Production Sound Mixer
Les Lazarowitz
Production Sound Mixer
Unit Publicist
Larry Kaplan
Unit Publicist
ADR Editor
Joe Dorn
ADR Editor
Assistant Sound Editor
Michele Perrone
Assistant Sound Editor
Linda Yeaney
Assistant Sound Editor
Michelle Pleis
Assistant Sound Editor
Transportation Captain
Sound Editor
Hugo Weng
Sound Editor
Hamilton Sterling
Sound Editor
Bob Newlan
Sound Editor
John Morris
Sound Editor
Negative Cutter
Donah Bassett
Negative Cutter
Cableman
Mike Bedard
Cableman
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Oliver Sacks' memoir "Awakenings" (1973).
- The film is based on real events that occurred in 1969–1970 with the neurologist Oliver Sacks, who later wrote a memoir about them. Harold Pinter also wrote a play, “A Kind of Alaska,” based on this book. The epidemic of Economo's lethargic encephalitis, causing catatonia, did indeed occur in 1917–1928; the drug “L-Dopa” is also real.
- Oliver Sacks served as a consultant during the making of the film.
- De Niro and Williams observed Dr. Sacks and real patients in the hospital for a long time before beginning to create their characters.
- During the filming of a scene where security guards try to prevent De Niro's character from leaving the hospital, Robin Williams, awkwardly swinging his elbow, broke Robert De Niro's nose. According to De Niro, his nose was already broken, and the blow, strangely enough, straightened it.
- In one of the film's scenes, Lillian T., a truly sick patient with lethargic encephalitis and the only one of Dr. Sacks' patients still alive at the time, appears.
- Vin Diesel can be seen among the hospital staff; the film was his first appearance on the big screen, but he is not credited in the film.
- Director Penny Marshall considered Bill Murray for the role of Leonard Lowe, but ultimately abandoned the idea, believing that audiences would expect a comedy with Murray, not a drama.
- Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) prescribes the drug levodopa (L-DOPA) to patients. Robin Williams himself used the same medication to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease shortly before his death in August 2014.
- When Lucy stops while walking to the fountain, it's visible that she is standing on a green square and stripe on the floor. When Malcolm calls out to her, "Lucy, come here," Lucy stands in front of the green stripe on the floor, on the green and light square. Afterwards, the doctor calls to the elderly woman again, and she is standing on the green square and stripe, as before.
- At the beginning of the film, when the nurse states her willingness to help, Malcolm (the doctor) lowers the window of his car to about shoulder height. With changes in shots, it is noticeable that the window position changes – when filmed from inside the car, the window is rolled down completely, and when filmed from the nurse's side – it is lower than it initially was.
- The film is based on Oliver Sacks' memoir, "Awakenings" (1973).
- When Lucy stops walking towards the fountain, it's visible that she's standing on a green square and stripe on the floor. When Malcolm calls out to her, "Lucy, come on" – Lucy is standing in front of the green stripe on the floor, on the green and light square. Afterwards, the doctor calls to the old woman again, and she is standing on the green square and stripe, as before.
- Filming took place from October 16, 1989, to February 16, 1990.
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