At First Sight

Name: At First Sight
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: January 15, 1999
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Val Kilmer

1999

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: January 15, 1999 | PG-13

Starring: Mira Sorvino, Val Kilmer

Summary: The story of a young woman architect (Sorvino) who falls in love with a blind man (Kilmer). She encourages him to undergo a radical operation to restore his sight, but ultimately his truest vision comes from the love he finds in his heart. (MGM)

Director: Irwin Winkler

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 128 min

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Kevin Thomas

An exceptionally touching and provocative love story. [15 January 1999, Calendar, p. F-4]

Mick LaSalle

The sweetest little movie about a neurological disorder that we're ever likely to see. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Director Irwin Winkler (Night and the City)is rarely better than pedestrian in handling this story. At worst, the dramatic elements are plain clumsy. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Val Kilmer, clearly pleased to be entering the Oscar disability sweepstakes, does what he can as the hunk who learns how to see. Read full review

Lael Loewenstein

Although it's notoriously difficult to play a romance involving one partner's disability or illness without resorting to sentimentality, Kilmer acquits himself admirably. Read full review

Janet Maslin

The pace is so plodding and the dialogue so unwaveringly banal … that the film can't rise to the extraordinary sensations it means to capture. Read full review

Rita Kempley

It's sheer piffle, a disingenuous romance with Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino that's all sap and no sizzle. Read full review

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Adonis102

Jul 13, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. One of Val Kilmer's best roles along with The Salton Sea, Heat & Batman Forever. He nails his role as a blind masseur who meets an architect from New York. Amy is played by Mira Sorvino from Mimic, she also complements the movie in every scene she's in. They become involved and she recommends that he has surgery to regain his sight. He agrees and then he moves to New York to live with Amy. He explores a lot of New York and his story is even featured on the news. I won't spoil the end because it is suprising. Overall this movie is unique, intriguing, emotional, brilliantly acted & a journey well worth taking.… Expand

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This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Val Kilmer prepared for his role by studying with a sculptor friend of his in New Mexico who had lost his sight in Vietnam. At 49:30 (NTSC) he is admiring a sculpture when he first visit's Amy's flat.… Expand

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