At First Sight (1999)

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Written by Oliver Sacks, Steve Levitt

Directed by Irwin Winkler

Running Time: 140 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1999

Rating: 12 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

A career driven Manhattan architect called Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino), relaxes at a health resort and falls passionately in love with one of the masseur's, Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). However, Virg has been blind since the age of 3 and is assisted through day-to-day activities by his spinster sister, Jennie (Kelly McGillis).

Virg helps Amy hear and sense the world in his way which gives her new spirit and a new burst of creativity.

Going against Jennie's wishes, Amy takes Virgil to New York for a new and extremely radical surgery which promises to restore his eyesight. The operation is successful but he's disoriented with the new world that he can now see and must learn to process these new images correctly, such as what a smile looks like, colour, light, dark, etc..

Finding his place in a seeing world strains his relation with Amy; his absent father wants to connect with him now that he can see; then, retinal disease threatens to undo the good this surgery did.

Can love survive, will he find his new place and his old tranquillity, and more importantly can Amy accommodate limits?

Cast

Image for Val KilmerVal KilmerVirgil Adamson
Image for Mira SorvinoMira SorvinoAmy Benic
Kelly McGillisJennie Adamson
Steven WeberDuncan Allanbrook
Bruce DavisonDr. Charles Aaron
Nathan LanePhil Webster
Ken HowardVirgil's Father
Laura KirkBetsy Ernst
Margo WinklerNancy Bender
Diana KrallSinger
Brett RobbinsEthan
Willie C. CarpenterJack Falk
Charles WinklerHealth Instructor
Drena de NiroCaroline
Kelly Chapman MeyerSusan
Jack DodickDr. Goldman
Nina GriscomChristie Evans
Mort ZuckermanHomeless Man
Gene KirkwoodMarshall
Richard EuellCarl Kipling
Carl J. MatusovichTommy
John GuideraVirgil's Co-Worker
Jack CooperOverweight Man
Jennifer WachtellEva
Marty DaveySchool Mother
Ben WolfeBass Player
Casey W. HarrisCasey
Ricky TrammellLoft D.J.
J.P. PattersonWaiter
Bonnie DeutschWorker
Sheryl Allington CarterReporter
Oliver SacksReporter
Angela WangReporter
Claude RavierReporter

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