A dose of humanistic treacle to do with the temporary revival of catatonic patients through the experimental administration (this is in 1969) of the wonder drug L-DOPA. ("Dr. Sayer!" "What is it?" "It's a fuckin' miracle!") The plural of the title is not solely because there is more than one such patient awakened, but because also there is another, a second sort of awakening in the experimental administrator himself, a laboratory researcher who comes far enough out of his shell to learn to work with patients directly and, by movie's end, to screw up his courage to the point of asking his adoring nurse for a date. Robin Williams portrays this man as the most extroverted introvert since Jerry Lewis was schlepping around on pigeon toes. And for that matter, the movie on the whole conforms to the same pattern: intimate in scope, closed-in, even claustrophobic, but played to the cheap seats in the upper balcony. You can take the director, Penny Marshall, out of television but you can't take television out of the director. With Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, and Penelope Ann Miller. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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