Movie: The Real Sleeping Beauty

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Miranda Pleasence
Miranda Pleasence

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    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.

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    2007-01-25

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    6.2

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