hysterical blindness

Director: mira nair

Actor: uma thurman,juliette lewis,gena rowlands,justin chambers

Data Published: Wed Aug 21 2002

Genres: Drama

Key Words: looking at oneself in a mirror,crying woman,imaginary boyfriend,billiard cue,billiard table

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290664/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_Blindness_(film)

Description: Hysterical Blindness is a TV movie starring Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, and Gena Rowlands. Two friends lament their unhappy single lives while searching for Mr. Right in 1980s New Jersey.

Plot: 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. She and her best friend Beth go to their favorite pub, Ollie's, and try to find a man and have a drink. Beth flirts with the bartender and Debby gets angry with her and decides to go outside. There she meets Rick. He wants little to do with her but she convinces him to walk her to her car. As a 'thank you' she offers to buy him a drink and tells him that she will be at the same bar again tomorrow. The next day they run into each other at the same bar and she asks him to go somewhere else and they end up at his house. It is clear that Rick has little interest in Debby, so to move things along she tells him that she 'gives a great blow job.' Afterwards, she thinks she has found love, but Rick was only looking for a one-night stand. Debby goes home, where her mother Virginia has also started dating an older man named Nick who wants her to move with him to Florida. Nick passes away suddenly from a heart attack, and Virginia realizes that until she met Nick, she had been living her life waiting for things to happen to her. In the end, Debby, Beth and Virginia struggle to find stability in their New Jersey town and agree that all they need is each other.