At First Sight (1999)

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

	Val Kilmer		Virgil 'Virg' Adamson
	Mira Sorvino		Amy Benic
	Kelly McGillis		Jennie Adamson
	Steven Weber		Duncan Allanbrook
	Bruce Davison		Dr. Charles Aaron
	Nathan Lane		Phil Webster
	Ken Howard		Virgil's Father
	Laura Kirk		Betsy Ernst
	Margo Winkler		Nancy Bender
	Diana Krall		Singer
	Brett Robbins		Ethan
	Willie C. Carpenter		Jack Falk
	Charles Winkler		Health Instructor
	Drena de Niro		Caroline
	Kelly Chapman		Susan