Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 10/03/08 Home Video 02/10/09 MPAA Rating RatedR for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity Running Time 2 hours Genre Drama Director Fernando Meirelles Writer James McBride Cast Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, with Danny Glover Studio Miramax |
BLINDNESS (2008)
SYNOPSIS
From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and
acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant
Gardener,” “City of God”) comes the compelling story
of humanity in the grip of an epidemic of mysterious
blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human
nature, both bad and good--people's selfishness,
opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity
for empathy, love and sheer perseverance.
It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously
struck blind while driving home from work, his whole
world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by
one, each person he encounters – his wife, his doctor,
even the seemingly good samaritan who gives him a lift
home – will in due course suffer the same unsettling
fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and
paranoia set in across the city, the newly blind victims
of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and
quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental
asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to
break down.
But inside the quarantined hospital, there is one secret
eyewitness: one woman (four-time Academy Award®
From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and
acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant
Gardener,” “City of God”) comes the compelling story
of humanity in the grip of an epidemic of mysterious
blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human
nature, both bad and good--people's selfishness,
opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity
for empathy, love and sheer perseverance.
It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously
struck blind while driving home from work, his whole
world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by
one, each person he encounters – his wife, his doctor,
even the seemingly good samaritan who gives him a lift
home – will in due course suffer the same unsettling
fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and
paranoia set in across the city, the newly blind victims
of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and
quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental
asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to
break down.
But inside the quarantined hospital, there is one secret
eyewitness: one woman (four-time Academy Award®
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nominee Julianne Moore) who has not been affected but has pretended she is blind in order to stay
beside her beloved husband (Mark Ruffalo). Armed with increasing courage and the will to survive, she
will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey, through horror and love, depravity and beauty,
warfare and wonder, to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only
hope left.
--© Miramax
beside her beloved husband (Mark Ruffalo). Armed with increasing courage and the will to survive, she
will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey, through horror and love, depravity and beauty,
warfare and wonder, to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only
hope left.
--© Miramax
