Hysterical Blindness (2002) on Netflix
Debby Miller is diagnosed with hysterical blindness. She and her best friend Beth look for men at Ollie's, their New Jersey bar in the 1980s, and Debby meets Rick outside.
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Plot summary
Debby Miller lives in Bayonne, New Jersey, and a doctor tells her she has hysterical blindness, a condition that makes her sight fade in and out. The advice she gets is to spend time enjoying herself with friends. She and Beth, her closest friend, head to Ollie's, the bar where they drink, hoping to meet a man. Beth flirts with the bartender, so an angry Debby goes outside, where she meets Rick. He has little interest in her, but she talks him into walking her to her car, offers him a drink as thanks and says she will be back at the bar the next evening. Her mother, Virginia, is dating Nick, an older widower who asks her to move to Florida with him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hysterical Blindness (2002)
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- The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2002 and aired on HBO that August; in 2003 Uma Thurman won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Debby Miller.
- Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands also won Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards at the 2003 Emmy Awards for their performances in the film, as Virginia Miller and Nick Piccolo.
- Alongside those acting wins at the 2003 Emmy Awards, the film's opening titles by Trollbäck + Company took a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2003.
