March’s Movie Night will be Sunday, March 10th at 5 PM. All are invited to attend and bring snacks to share with the group. The movie we’ll be viewing is Awakenings, the 1990 Robin Williams and Robert De Niro film about a doctor and his catatonic patients. Set in 1969, this film is about a new doctor who finds himself with a ward full of catatonic patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been catatonic for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. When the first patient awakes, he is well into his 50s having gone into a catatonic state at 20 years of age. The film then delights in the new awareness of the patients and then on the reactions of their relatives to the changes in the newly awakened.

The film was nominated for 3 Oscars and is considered some of Robin Williams’ best non-comedic acting. The film is rated PG-13.