I missed this when you first posted it - I found out about it on the last day of our honeymoon, and I just yelled "WHAT!" out loud to my computer. Then, when Greg and I moved to Memphis, we didn't have cable in the new place yet, so we watched Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society (both on VHS) and Death to Smoochy, and then when we got our cable hooked up, we watched The Birdcage. He was one of my favorites; my brothers and I watched his full HBO comedy special back before YouTube when you had to spend a whole day downloading a video, and we could recite the entire bit about the origins of golf. (Although, we usually didn't, because our parents were in earshot and it was pretty crude.) Plus, obviously, Aladdin, Jumanji, and Fern Gully, and the girls and I had a weird affection for The World According to Garp in high school. I hadn't even heard of Awakenings, though - that just got added to my Netflix queue.

Ugh. Yeah. I normally cry during the "Oh Captain My Captain" scene *anyway* - so...yeah. It's hard to watch a lot of it now. I watched the scene from Louie again and it just hits you right in the gut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0asL5VaWzM0