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From 'suicidal' drug taking and death-defying motorcycle rides to writing books on mental health - documentary tells incredible story of neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose life inspired Robin Williams' character in Awakenings

When the film Awakenings was released in 1990, it was an immediate hit with critics and moviegoers alike. 

Starring Robert De Niro as patient Leonard Lowe who 'awakens' from a 30-year catatonia, and Robin Williams as the doctor who temporarily cures him, it introduced the world-at-large to Oliver Sacks – the brilliant real-life neurologist on whom Williams' character was based. 

Unsurprisingly, the film earned numerous plaudits including three Oscar nominations. What is surprising, however, is that it took the release of a Hollywood movie for Sacks to finally be embraced by a medical profession that had previously ignored him.

It's just one of the fascinating details to emerge from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life – a forthcoming documentary which was filmed shortly after he was diagnosed with cancer in January 2015.

Though he was to die just seven months later, he appears on screen having lost none of his enthusiasm for medicine nor any of the eccentricity that had characterised his past 82 years.

Documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life was filmed shortly

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Awakening to 25 Years of Change

A quarter of a century passed and Leonard Lowe only grew older.

Leonard Lowe is the fact-based character played by Robert De Niro in the new film “Awakenings.” As a young boy he contracted an encephalitic sleeping sickness. Almost 30 years later, an experimental drug woke him up. Eventually the drug failed and Lowe returned to his coma. In the film we never learn much about what the real or even the fictional Lowe missed in the years that stretched from a pre-World War II America to a Vietnam War America.

We couldn’t help but fantasize (it goes with the season) about Lowe. What if he had continued to live another quarter of a century and a new drug brought him back today? What would he have missed in those years? Our years? What would he have to know to get current again, to play catch-up?

We might also ask, how far have most of us traveled in that time?

Since it’s almost au courant to make lists and do some summing up in these dying days of December, we made one for Lowe. It turns out to be a sort of where we’ve been, where we’ve come to.

So, Leonard Lowe, this is for you, our version of “The Return of Awakenings, 1965-1990.”

Some things didn’t change much:

A Texan (L.B.J.) was President when you entered your second coma. A Texan is