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Created Jan 16, 2012 08:33PM PST • Edited Jan 16, 2012 08:33PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Robin Williams plays a nerdy researcher who gets a staff job at a special needs hospital, where he is presented with practically comatose victims of an epidemic that occurred decades ago. Only now, a cure exists and Dr Sayer won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The story that ensues is both heart-warming, and heart-wrenching as this eclectic cast of characters discover what it is like to live again after so many years. The movie drags on a lttle long, but you’ll be rewarded by top-notch acting and a tug-at-the-heart-strings story.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Just an outstanding cast. Anyone who appreciates quality acting, or is studying to be an actor needs to see this movie. Its like a whos-who of contemporary actors who made it in either TV or movies: Robin Williams as the nerdy-bespectacled Dr.., Julie Kavner as the enthusiastic accomplice-Nurse; Robert DeNiro outstanding as patient Leonard Lowe; Max Von Sydow as the older original investigator — and other well knowns: Anne Meara, Alice Drummond, John Heard, and Max Von Sydow, even Bradley Whitford do their part.

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    Good 3.0

    The story is unique and the cast outstanding. Good mix – but a little slow 2/3 of the way in.

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Good 3.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.2

17. Sex Innocent 1.2

18. Violence Gentle 1.2

19. Rudeness Polite 1.2

21. Reality

    Glib 1.9

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.9

23. Biological Glib 1.9

24. Physical Glib 1.9