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At First Sight

1999

Irwin Winkler

Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber ...

4.9

4,073

Romance. Drama While on vacation an engaged New York City architect Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino) meets a blind massage therapist and begins to fall in love with, charismatic masseur Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). Against the wishes of his sister Kelly McGillis she takes him back to New York to participate in a daring medical procedure that could restore his sight.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Unfortunately, its moments of fascination and its good performances are mired in the morass of romance and melodrama that surrounds it (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Plodding and banal (...) An indulgently meandering film that could have been pruned at many junctures"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[Winkler] glamorizes, romanticizes, and simplifies the material to an insulting degree, but despite his worst efforts, fragments of what made the original story arresting manage to leak through"	NEU
United Kingdom	Aimee Jakes Empire	"'Worthy but dull' is the phrase that comes to mind pondering the output from distinguished producer-turned-director Winkler (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Neither as bad as it looks nor as good as it should be, the thoughtful romance 'At First Sight' is a love boat afloat on the vast cinematic ocean that sloshes back and forth between the stinko and the fabulous"	NEU

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