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Blindness (2008)

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This Brazil-Canada-Japan coproduction was written by Don McKellar and based on the 1995 Nobel Prize-winning novel by Portuguese writer Jose Saramago. It tells the story of the inhabitants of a city that is suddenly struck with a strange plague, leaving up to 90 per cent of the population devastated by blindness. A small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine. Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, the film was shot in Toronto in 2007 and then moved to Brazil in October. It was selected to open the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and the 2008 Vancouver International Film Festival.

121 minutes
Opening date: October 3, 2008
Distributor: Alliance Films
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Main Cast:

Julianne Moore
Mark Ruffalo
Alice Braga
Yusuke Iseya
Yoshino Kimura
Don McKellar
Maury Chaykin
Mitchell Nye
Danny Glover
Gael García Bernal
Sandra Oh
Martha Burns
Michael Mahonen
Nadia Litz
Mpho Koaho
Joe Pingue
Susan Coyne
Joris Jarsky
Linlyn Lue
Scott Anderson
Jackie Brown
Billy Otis
Tom Melissis
Joe Cobden
Jorge Molina
Isai Rivera Blas
Katherine East
Eduardo Semerjian
Francisco Meirelles
Amanda Hiebert
Mike G. Yohannes
Agi Gallus

Niv Fichman
Sari Friedland
Andrea Barata Ribeiro
Sonoko Sakai
Fernando Meirelles
Don McKellar
César Chartone
Daniel Rezende
Marco Antônio Guimarães

Doctor's Wife
Doctor
Girl with the dark glasses
First blind man
First blind man's wife
The thief
The accountant
Boy with a squint
Old man with eye patch/Narrator
King of Ward 3
Minister of Health
Woman with insomnia
Sergeant
Woman of Ward 1
Pharmacist's assistant
Taxi driver
The receptionist
The hooligan
Emissary of ward 2
Meek Inmate
Woman of ward 2
Hoodlum
The John / Engineer
Police officer
The hotel security guard
Man of ward 3
Intern
Concerned Pedestrian #1
Dead body
Hotel maid
Man of ward 3
Woman in ward 2