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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Hysterical Blindness<br />
| image = Hystericalblindnessdvd.jpg<br />
| caption = Promotional poster<br />
| director = [[Mira Nair]]<br />
| producer = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Jason Blum]]<br />
* Amy Israel<br />
* [[Uma Thurman]]<br />
}}<br />
| writer = Laura Cahill<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = {{Plainlist|<br />
* Uma Thurman<br />
* [[Gena Rowlands]]<br />
* [[Juliette Lewis]]<br />
* [[Ben Gazzara]]<br />
}}<br />
| music = [[Lesley Barber]]<br />
| cinematography =<br />
| editing =<br />
| distributor = [[Home Box Office|HBO]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|2002|01|16|[[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]|2002|08|21|HBO}}<br />
| runtime = 96 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Hysterical Blindness''''' is a 2002 American [[television film]] directed by [[Mira Nair]] and starring [[Gena Rowlands]], [[Uma Thurman]], [[Juliette Lewis]] and [[Ben Gazzara]]. The film premiered 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 Award]]s. The opening titles by Trollbäck + Company won a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2003.<br />
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In the film Thurman plays an excitable [[New Jersey]] woman in the 1980s searching for romance. 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”.<ref>"A repulsive beauty in ’80s Jersey, Thurman’s histrionics fit “Hysterical Blindness” well." ''San Francisco Chronicle''. 23 August 2002. Retrieved 13 February 2006.</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
It's 1987 in [[Bayonne, New Jersey]] and Debby Miller has just been diagnosed with a condition called [[Conversion disorder|hysterical blindness]] in which there are moments when her sight fades in and out. The doctor tells her to try to have fun with her friends. She and her best friend Beth go to their favorite pub, Ollie's, and try to find a man and have a drink. Beth flirts with the bartender and Debby gets angry with her and decides to go outside. There she meets Rick. He wants little to do with her but she convinces him to walk her to her car. As a 'thank you' she offers to buy him a drink and tells him that she will be at the same bar again tomorrow.<br />
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The next day they run into each other at the same bar and she asks him to go somewhere else and they end up at his house. It is clear that Rick has little interest in Debby, so to move things along she tells him that she 'gives a great blow job.' Afterwards, she thinks she has found love, but Rick was only looking for a one-night stand. Debby goes home, where her mother Virginia has also started dating an older man named Nick who wants her to move with him to Florida. Nick passes away suddenly from a heart attack, and Virginia realizes that until she met Nick, she had been living her life waiting for things to happen to her. In the end, Debby, Beth and Virginia struggle to find stability in their New Jersey town and agree that all they need is each other.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[Uma Thurman]] as Debby Miller<br />
*[[Gena Rowlands]] as Virginia Miller<br />
*[[Juliette Lewis]] as Beth Toczynski<br />
*[[Ben Gazzara]] as Nick Piccolo<br />
*[[Justin Chambers]] as Rick<br />
*Jolie Peters as Amber Autumn Toczynski<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{official website|http://www.hbo.com/films/hystericalblindness/index.html}}<br />
*{{Amg movie|261171}}<br />
*{{IMDb title|0290664}}<br />
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{{EmmyAward MainTitleDesign}}<br />
{{Mira Nair}}<br />
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[[Category:2002 television films]]<br />
[[Category:2002 films]]<br />
[[Category:American films]]<br />
[[Category:English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:HBO Films films]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in 1987]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in New Jersey]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Mira Nair]]<br />
[[Category:Films shot in New Jersey]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Lesley Barber]]</div>>MarnetteD