Blindness (2008)
Genres: Thriller
Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Gael García Bernal, Maury Chaykin, Alice Braga, Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Yūsuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Mitchell Nye, Susan Coyne, Martha Burns, Joe Pingue, Tracy Wright, Niv Fichman, Gerry Mendicino, Fabiana Guglielmetti, Joe Cobden, Amanda Heibert, Michael Mahonen, Tom Melissis, Matt Gordon, Joseph Motiki, Joris Jarsky, Billy Otis, Linlyn Lue, Toni Ellwand, Mariah Inger, Nadia Litz, Mpho Koaho, Douglas Silva, Daniel Zettel
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. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2008.