pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
—
from 11 comments
COMMUNITY
—
nobody yet
YOURS
—
…
FUN
20
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
0
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 11 comments (10 from Metacritic, 1 from TMDB reviews) — 2 of them described how it moves.
Thin evidence — the shape below rests on 2 comments. The shaded band is how wide the uncertainty actually is, and it is drawn to scale.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
“hard to watch in parts, particularly towards the end”
DawdlingPoet · Metacritic ↗
“Robin Williams, which started like he always starts, but then he gets more real after the first act”
Aproxx · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 2% · too thin for a score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“After seeing Awakenings, I read it, to know more about what happened in that Bronx hospital. What both the movie and the book convey is the immense courage of the patients and the profound experience of their doctors, as in a small way they reexperienced what it means to be born, to open your eyes and discover to your astonishment that "you" are alive.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 100
“Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, is a curiously engaging, genuinely haunting movie that rises above some dubious handicapped jokes and strange casting decisions to be truly special. [11 Jan 1991, p.5]”
William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer · 100
“The director Penny Marshall has gone straight to the heart of this complex story and made a powerfully poignant and illuminating film. She doesn't hesitate to push for the grand sentimental moment, but balances the teary stuff with restraint and humor. To be sure, Awakenings seems calculated to induce weeping -- and it does, without making the weeper feel cheap. [20 Dec 1990, p.A14]”
Julie Salamon, Wall Street Journal · 90
“Marshall masterfully plays our strings without becoming either melodramatic or maudlin. Like Brian De Palma's "Bonfire of the Vanities," hers is an adaptation that ends with a wake-up call, only here it's done successfully and in context.”
Rita Kempley, Washington Post · 90
“Director Penny Marshall's choreography encompasses emotional as well as physical ebbs and flows. Awakenings lives up to its title. [11 Jan 1991]”
Jay Carr, Boston Globe · 88
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“hard to watch in parts, particularly towards the end”
DawdlingPoetabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“Robin Williams, which started like he always starts, but then he gets more real after the first act”
Aproxxabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“Williams and De Niro (method dialled to max) are brilliant, but Awakenings feels oddly lightweight for its heavy subject. Penny Marshall’s trademark soft-touch direction—charming in the ’80s—feels out of place here the performances from the two leads the only thing that stops it becoming a Hallmark melodrama. It’s watchable, sure, but a bit too fluffy for modern sensibilities. A curious mismatch of style and story.”
griggs79read it ↗
“A touching and moving film. I was very happy with this movie. I didn't know him, and I decided to watch him these days because I saw that the film had the participation of Robin Williams, an actor that I really appreciate. But the film goes beyond that, and gives us a deeply moving story, based on a real situation, in which a team of doctors who, in the 60's, sought to help the recovery of catatonic patients who had survived an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica that occurred a few decades ear”
FilipeNetoread it ↗
“***A ‘hospital film’ with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, based on a true story*** A shy doctor (Robin Williams) gets a job at a Bronx hospital in 1969 where he attends to several patients in a catatonic state after the encephalitis epidemic of 1917–28. He experiments with a new drug that offers the hope of reviving them. Robert De Niro plays his key patient, Julie Kavner his nurse and John Heard his supervisor. Penelope Ann Miller is also on hand as a potential romantic interest. "Awak”
Wuchakread it ↗
no tags yet — rate this flick to drop some vibes ✨