Hysterical Blindness (2002)

Directed by

Mira Nair

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1980s New Jersey, a lonely woman named Debby obsessively pursues romance while working at a factory. Her mother Virginia also struggles with her own romantic disappointments.

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What happens

Hysterical Blindness is a 2002 American television drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Laura Cahill, based on her stage play of the same name. It stars Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, and Ben Gazzara. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2002, and aired on HBO on August 21, 2002. In 2003, Uma Thurman won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Debby Miller. Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands also won Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards for their performances as Virginia Miller and Nick Piccolo at the 2003 Emmy Awards. The opening titles by Trollbäck + Company won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2003. Thurman plays an excitable New Jersey woman searching for romance in the 1980s. The San Francisco Chronicle review wrote: "Thurman so commits herself to the role, eyes blazing and body akimbo, that you start to believe that such a creature could exist — an exquisite looking woman so spastic and needy that she repulses regular Joes. Thurman has bent the role to her will." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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