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Production and year: USA 2007 Genre: Medical thriller Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard Medical theme: heart transplantation, inappropriate analgesia Description: Truly interesting movie that keeps the viewers in suspense. Clay is a rich young businessman who is madly in love with his girlfriend Sam. To a complete happiness he needs only a healthy heart. He waits for a graft and on the eve of his heart surgery he secretly marries Sam against the will of his mother. Clay chooses his friend Dr. Jack Harper to operate him under the protest of his mother - she insists that responsibility for the procedure should placed on a famous and experienced Dr. Jonathan Neyer. Clay calm and confident to a moment when he experiences "anesthetic awareness" - a condition that leaves him conscious and pain-sensitive although paralysed.. He isnt able to move nor even to shout with pain. To make things worse it appears that Clay falls a victim of a plot schemed by the people most important to him. Totally paralysed begins a fight for his life...
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Awakenings
(1990)
production: USA genre: Drama
Director: Penny Marshall
Writers: Oliver Sacks, Steven Zaillian
Pictures: Miroslav Ondříček
Music: Randy Newman
Runtime: 121
Awakenings is based on a true story heartwarming story about a doctor who changed the lives of his patients. Starring Oscar nominee Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Willams portrays dr. Malcom Sayer, a scientist who uses an experimental drug to bring back his catatonic patients to full consciousness. De Niro plays Leonard, the first patient to undergo a controversial therapy. Motivated by the success of his experiment dr. Sayer decides to apply the drug to other patients. Awakenings is a story about an extraordinary friendship, the strength of human spirit and a power to create miracles.
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