No doubt many of you cried near the end of the movie Awakenings.
The movie, based on Oliver Sacks’ bestselling book of the same name, struck an emotional chord with many people for the same reason that Flowers for Algernon did, and it turns out to be about as based on real life as that depressing work was.
This is the New Yorker article link – Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
h/t Patti Jo
