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Blindness
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4200
- IMDb #3450
- Rotten Tomatoes #3969
- Metacritic #3666
- Letterboxd #3394
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4092
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4195
- Metacritic Critics #3868
- Metacritic Audience #3066
- Kinopoisk #3749
- AlloCiné #3414
- Trakt #3303
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 44, highest is Trakt on 68. Critics average 44, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A sudden epidemic of unexplained blindness sweeps through a city, plunging society into chaos. The victims are quarantined in a abandoned asylum that quickly descends into a brutal, primitive state. The only person who retains her sight pretends to be blind to stay with her husband, and she becomes the group's guide and protector in the darkness.
Details
- Director
- Fernando Meirelles
- Writer
- Don McKellar
- Based on
- Blindness by José Saramago
- Released
- 14 May 2008
- Country
- Brazil, Canada, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $19.8M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →0 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 2008 | Palme d'Or | Fernando Meirelles | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 2008 | Best Actress | Julianne Moore | Nominee |
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×| Palme d'Or | Fernando Meirelles | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Julianne Moore | Nominee |