Nonureva Really Surprised!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

triple8 SPOILERS THROUGHOUT: I knew I'd love Hysterical Blindness and recently had a chance to see it. I liked it even more then expected. A brilliant movie and a job well done from the whole cast.Pretty much everyone knows the plot but....I will say watching this movie, I was struck with how much was gotten so right. I love character studies and love independent films because their often not afraid to take chances as are many, more mainstream movies. They are often more accurate As well.Everyone in this movie exists-somewhere in this world. Movies that capture the humanness of everyday people and environments, deserve kudos because it is not often when that happens. Hysterical Blindness could function as a very long advertisement to someone about the negatives of the bar scene and the movie is almost emotionally brutal in the way it picks up the quiet weariness some of these people feel. The writing is just superb and I really wish This had been a big screen release and am sure a few Oscars would have been picked up along the way.All the performers were outstanding. Uma Thurman was BETTER then in the kill bill movies (yes, it's true) and Gena Rowlands and Juliette Lewis were outstanding. Oh how I adored the gentle dreamer Nick! (played brilliantly by Ben Gazzara). Thurman's playing down of her looks still did not disguise the fact that she is a beautiful woman but that did not, for me, lessen the believability one bit. As many know, the fact that one is extremely Goodlooking does not mean they cannot experience emotional pain in relationships. I found not one false note in this movie and I found Hysterical Blindness to be just incredible.This is probably one of the most honest movies about suburban single life I've ever seen and it actually makes the movie "Singles" look like a light Rom com. I'm always struck by movies that are like a little( or big) slice of life. In that regard, Hysterical Blindness is at the top of the heap. my rating is 9 of 10.

Kathryn-17 For anyone who has ever been truly, painfully lonely and done really stupid things under the influence of alcohol just to gain a little affection and affirmation, this movie will be like looking in the mirror. I winced when Uma's character literally flung herself at a guy who is, like a recent book popular dating book says, is just not that into her. The pain on Uma's character's face is just too much to take sometimes. I've watched this film twice and even though the I knew what was going to happen, seeing it a second time was just as heart-wrenching and touching. Kudos to all the actors, especially Uma Thurman and Gena Rowlands. PLEASE see every Gena Rowlands movie ever made - you won't be disappointed. She is one of the finest actors of our time.

julschir This movie can't quite decide what it wants to be: 1. A serious coming of age sort of profile of two direction-less young women who are trapped in working class neighborhood without any future ahead of them, looking for love in all the wrong places, who ultimately find some sort of enlightenment about love and themselves. OR 2. A lighthearted look at two girls in the 80s who just wanta have fun and/or Mr. Right but trip and fall a few times on their way towards that goal. Another problem is that the movie fails to significantly define its setting either in place or time. We figure out NJ from the accents and 80s from the clothes and snippets of music but these elements could have been played up more. You spend time trying to figure out what sort of direction the movie is taking and never get quite satisfied as it fails to produce in either direction. You do feel for the characters but the Uma Thurman is so over the top that you are repulsed by her character which is so heavy handed that it seems out of place with the rather sweet lightness of other characterizations in the movie - her mother, her friend, her friend's daughter etc.

benymil Movies have made us believe or want to make us believe that "special people" or "special events" are what is worth showing or telling while in reality, we all, the non-heroes, the gray people of the world, live our day-to-day life and deal with our day-to-day problems and the way to cope with that reality is what this film is all about.Uma Thurman and Gena Rowlands are both great by depicting normal people. Not super heroes.So is no-questions-asked friend Juliette Lewis. Pity that both men, Justin Chambers and Ben Gazzara look so superficial and hollow.The greatness of the film is, again, translating a day-to-day situation, we can all pass, into a flawless flow of events which are a lot easier for the viewer to recognize as flaws that to the people in the screen. I just wish we could see ourselves as we can see the actors.