Blindness
2008 · Movie · R · 121 min · ★ 6.5 · 45% critics
A sudden plague of blindness ravages a city, forcing afflicted people into a harsh quarantine. Struggling with the horrific conditions, a small group bands together and fights for a way to survive and push back against what’s happening.
Based on Blindness
Also known as Cegueira · A Ciegas · L'aveuglement
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Details
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-05-14
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Critic score
- 45/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (1,378 votes)
- Box office
- $19,800,000
- Budget
- $25,000,000
About
If you want a dark, intense outbreak story that leans into fear, survival, and human conflict, Blindness delivers—Not for you if you dislike bleak post-apocalyptic material or prefer action-forward thrillers like I Am Legend or Contagion.
Pros: strong central premise; tense quarantine setting; compelling performances | Cons: drags in the middle; bleak and upsetting tone; divisive realism
Themes
- blindness and impaired vision
- based on novel or book
- fight
- society
- asylum
- eye specialist
- uprising
- outbreak
- epidemic
- doomsday
- plague
Cast & crew
Julianne Moore
as Doctor's Wife
Mark Ruffalo
as Doctor
Danny Glover
as Man with Black Eye Patch
Gael García Bernal
as Bartender / King of Ward Three
Maury Chaykin
as Accountant
Alice Braga
as Woman with Dark Glasses
Don McKellar
as Thief
Sandra Oh
as Minister of Health
Yūsuke Iseya
as First Blind Man
Yoshino Kimura
as First Blind Man's Wife
Directed by Fernando Meirelles