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Blindness [videorecording] / Rhombus Media ; O2 Filmes ; Bee Vine Pictures ; produced by Niv Fichman ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Don McKellar ; directed by Fernando Meirelles

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 47277 | Miramax/Lionsgate76919 | Echo Bridge Home EntertainmentPublication details: [United States] : Miramax Films : [Distributed by] Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, [2011]Description: 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Cinematography, César Charlone ; editor, Daniel Rezende ; original score by Marco Antônio Guimarães/Uakti.
Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Isea, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal.Summary: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague goes into quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become like a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city. Their voyage is fraught with danger, but their survival is a reflection of the depth of the human spirit.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA Blindnes Available 33111008310720
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This unflinching story begins when a plague of blindness strikes and threatens all of humanity. One woman feigns the illness to share an uncertain fate in quarantine, where society is breaking down as fast as the crumbling surroundings.

Based on the novel "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" by José Saramago.

DVD release of the 2008 motion picture.

MPAA rating: R, for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity.

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Cinematography, César Charlone ; editor, Daniel Rezende ; original score by Marco Antônio Guimarães/Uakti.

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Isea, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal.

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague goes into quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become like a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city. Their voyage is fraught with danger, but their survival is a reflection of the depth of the human spirit.

DVD, widescreen, Dolby Surround.

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