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At First Sight
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for scenes involving sexuality and nudity, and for brief strong language
Starring
Val Kilmer,
Lee Rosen,
Raisa Ivanic,
Mira Sorvino,
Kelly McGillis,
Daniel Franco,
Steven Weber,
and
Nathan Lane
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)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Steve Levitt
Oliver Sacks (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Irwin Winkler
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 19, 2000
Video: July 30, 2002
Theatrical: January 15, 1999
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| RUNNING TIME: |
128 minutes, Color & B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An exceptionally touching and provocative love story. [15 January 1999, Calendar, p. F-4]
75
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
More of a physical achievement in moviemaking than a piece of storytelling, but I do recommend it on that basis. [15 January 1999, Friday, p.A]
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The sweetest little movie about a neurological disorder that we're ever likely to see.
63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Offers solid entertainment, it's too uneven to be considered memorable.
50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A love boat afloat on the vast cinematic ocean that sloshes back and forth between the stinko and the fabulous.
50
Chicago Reader
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.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie takes fascinating material and transforms it into a routine soap opera.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Its moments of fascination and its good performances are mired in the morass of romance and melodrama that surrounds it.
50
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
It's a movie drenched in narcissism and wish-fulfillment, almost a textbook on how to make a formulaic, romantic film.
50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
May be only loosely true, but it is thoroughly Hollywood.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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.
42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Here's a romance without a spark of excitement.
40
Variety
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.
40
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
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.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
For all the tear-jerking plot twists, it's a glumly dry-eyed affair.
38
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
If "You've Got Mail" jangled your nerves with its Starbucks-fueled cuteness, here's a romance that goes down like instant decaf. [15 January 1999, Life, p.18E]
30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Director Irwin Winkler and his cast obviously hope to shed light on the boundaries of love, and instead come up with a walloping case of the preachies.
30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
It's drainingly mediocre.
30
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Even when the film does strike some genuinely heart-tugging notes, they’re invariably shattered by such ham-fisted lines as “You really are blind.” At times, it’s enough to make you wish you were deaf.
20
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It's sheer piffle, a disingenuous romance with Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino that's all sap and no sizzle.
20
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
The film slips into a coma early on and never awakens.
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