Blindness is a 2008 English-language film that is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese writer José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. The film is written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as the main characters. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May... 14, 2008, and the film was released in the United States on October 3, 2008. The story of Blindness begins on a morning in an unnamed city during rush-hour traffic. As the traffic lights change, a young Japanese professional is suddenly struck blind for no apparent reason and blocks all the traffic behind his car. With the honking horns of the other frustrated drivers causing a commotion, the Japanese man is approached by a few concerned people, one of whom offers to drive him home.
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| Release date: | September 12, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Fernando Meirelles |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sonoko Sakai, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Niv Fichman |
| Editor: | Daniel Rezende |
| Cinematography: | César Charlone |
| Screenplay by: | Don McKellar, José Saramago |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Blindness |
| Genre: | Thriller |