Hysterical Blindness is a made-for-HBO movie directed by Mira Nair and starring Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Ben Gazzara. The movie premiered on HBO on August 21, 2002 to good reviews. In 2003, Uma Thurman won a Golden Globe 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. 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”. It's 1987 in Bayonne, New Jersey and Debby Miller has just been diagnosed with a condition called 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.
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| Release date: | 2002 |
| Directed by: | Mira Nair |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Producer: | Uma Thurman, Jason Blum, Amy Israel, Lydia Dean Pilcher |
| Editor: | Kristina Boden |
| Music by: | Lesley Barber |
| Cinematography: | Declan Quinn |
| Screenplay by: | Laura Cahill |