MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Blindness
When one man is struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world is turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters suffers the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and paranoia sets in, the newly blind victims of the "White Sickness" are quarantined within an abandoned mental asylum. But, inside the quarantined hospital, there is one woman who has only pretended she is blind in order to stay beside her husband. She will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only hope left.
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MPAA rating:
R
for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity
Cast:
Maury Chaykin; Don McKellar; Michael Mahonen; Sandra Oh; Julianne Moore; Mark Ruffalo; Alice Braga; Gael García Bernal; Danny Glover; Martha Burns
Directed by:
Fernando Meirelles
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Genre:
Drama; Suspense, Thriller Running time:
01:58
Release date:
2008
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