Blindness

Based On the book by José Saramago

Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese author José Saramago. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. 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.

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Release date:

2008

Director:

Fernando Meirelles

Cast:

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yūsuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Genre:

Drama, Dystopian, Disaster

Country:

Japan, Brazil, Canada

Language:

English

Year page:

2008 in adaptations