The Real Sleeping Beauty

The Real Sleeping Beauty

2007 · 47 min · ★ 6.2 · Documentary

A medical miracle is chronicled in this documentary about a woman who shocks experts when she awakens from a 20-year coma with the power of speech.

Directed by Liz Friend

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