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DVD : Hysterical Blindness |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359189920
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Sales Rank: 18657
MPN: HBOD91899D
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Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis, two of today's most sensational actresses, tackle what it was to be single in the 80's in a new movie with a terrific 80's soundtrack. It's 1987 in Bayonne, New Jersey. The bars are full and smoky and Debby (Thurman) and Beth (Lewis) are out looking for a good time. Debby is searching for the kind of love they sing about in songs, the kind that lasts forever. What she can't see is that most guys are only looking for a love that lasts one night. From Mira Nair, director of Monsoon Wedding and Mississippi Masala.
Amazon.com:
Uma Thurman is painful to watch in Hysterical Blindness--and that's a compliment. Thurman completely gives herself over to her trashy character, a pathetically self-deluding good-time girl who hangs out in a tavern in Bayonne, New Jersey, circa 1987. She occupies the bar stool next to her best bud (a dead-on Juliette Lewis), willing herself to believe that an obviously indifferent pick-up is Mr. Right. Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) directed this familiar but nicely-rendered HBO production; her visual style, full of obscured sightlines and opaque glass, emphasizes the heroine's inability to see clearly. Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara, as Thurman's mom and her gentleman suitor, add an echo of Cassavetes realism. But it's Thurman's tour de force, capturing the kind of lost soul whose idea of first-date chat is to break an awkward silence by boasting about her best sexual skill. She will make you cringe. --Robert Horton
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Sure, it's essentially a soap opera, but the acting and writing are superb. HBO does it again. Uma Thurman is great, so is Juliette Lewis and so are Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara. Everything works here. The cheesy DVD cover doesn't do this justice.
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This is a movie made for HBO TV, but the cast is great: Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands all three fine actresses who deliver great performances in this film by Mira Nair. We meet two young women who are life long friends. One has a child by her first love, while the other one has never been married or had a meaningful relationship. Both are desperate to find love, get married and have a real family. The problem is that they are trying too hard and they are going to the wrong places ... Read More
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I cannot say enough about the performances of Thurman and Lewis in this wonderful character study set in the late 1980s. Thurman nailed her character -- a lonely working girl who spent her nights in a bar looking for love. I ached to hear her struggle to connect on any level with the guy who took her home for nothing more than sex on his living room floor. In desperation to hang onto this man, Thurman heartbreakingly begs to make him breakfast, which he refuses, then asks to make him a dinner of ... Read More
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This movie shows a side of human behavior I've never seen in cinema before, but have indeed in life. Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, and Gena Rowlands give nuanced, believable performances that suck you in to what is essentially a character piece. The story is thin, but that doesn't matter because we can all relate to what the characters are going through. It concerns 2 best friends (Uma and Juliette) and their quest for love at their local hangout, the neighborhood bar. We all know how hopeless, futile ... Read More
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I just cannot understand how this movie didn't get critically acclaimed. It is an amazing piece. At times cringingly reminiscent of my own mistakes in my youth, but an extraodinary script and the most amazing acting story.
It is about two women, 'pushing thirty' as it says in the blurb above. The difference here is that they have never grown up into adult relationships, they are searching for something which they think is an adult relationship, but searching in the same places, the bar the ... Read More
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0026359189920
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Sales Rank: 18657
MPN: HBOD91899D
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