| Hysterical Blindness | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Based on | Hysterical Blindness by Laura Cahill |
| Written by | Laura Cahill |
| Directed by | Mira Nair |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Lesley Barber |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Producer | Lydia Dean Pilcher |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Editor | Kristina Boden |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Production company | Blum Israel Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | HBO |
| Release | January 16, 2002 |
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Hysterical Blindness is a 2002 American television drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Laura Cahill, based on her stage play of the same name. It stars Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, and Ben Gazzara. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2002, and aired 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 Awards. The opening titles by Trollbäck + Company won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2003.
Thurman plays an excitable New Jersey woman searching for romance in the 1980s. 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."[1]
- ^ Meyer, Carla (August 23, 2002). "A repulsive beauty in '80s Jersey / Thurman's histrionics fit "Hysterical Blindness" well". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 13, 2006.