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Overall Rank: 15696
Average Rating: 2.2/4
# of Ratings: 35
Theatrical Release Date: 01/15/1999
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Irwin Winkler
Actors: Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison, Nathan Lane
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WHEN THE HEART SEES MORE THAN THE EYES
shutterspeed777 - wrote on 04/18/2009
Blind since 3 years old. Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer) sees the world through his hands. It was mental blindness. Shades and colors didn't mean anything to him. One might think that the ability to see may well be the best gift
he'd ever ask for. Apparently, that wasn't the case. It blew his world away. His whole environment was ordered by distance pre-calculations, rote memory, and by the guiding hands of his sister Kelly McGillis. And then one day he was able to see. A medical miracle...a short-lived one at that. The brain was unable to associate and correlate between "seeing" and "touching". After a brief period of time, he became blind again.
Good acting by Kilmer. Poignant and provocative. Academy-award winner Mira Sorvino, the stressed-out, go-getter architect, her …
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