Hysterical Blindness is a TV movie made for HBO, 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 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.
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”.Synopsis
A la fin des années 80, dans le New Jersey, deux amies à la recherche de l'âme soeur, tentent de donner un sens à leur vie. Parallèlement, la mère de l'une d'entre elles entretient une liaison amoureuse avec un vieux séducteur.
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