Blindness DVD and Book Giveaway
February 9, 2009 by Tracy
Filed under Book Contests, DVD Giveaways
A mysterious epidemic sends a city reeling toward the edge of madness, while one woman tries to preserve a small pocket of humanity in the taut thriller Blindness, coming to DVD on February 10, 2009. Presented by Miramax Films and based on Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s masterful novel, this intense and gritty drama, called “powerful and provocative” by Stephen Schaefer of the Boston Herald, was nominated for the 2008 Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Award winning actress Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven, The End of the Affair, Boogie Nights) heads up an extraordinary cast that also includes Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac), Danny Glover (Lonesome Dove, Mandela), Alice Braga (I Am Legend) and Gael García Bernal (Babel) in a paranoia fueled psychological thriller that will have audiences on the edge of their seats.
When a sudden, inexplicable epidemic of blindness sweeps a major city, health authorities round up the victims and quarantine them in Blindness, an apocalyptic thriller from director Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner, City of God). The wife (Julianne Moore) of an afflicted doctor (Mark Ruffalo) feigns blindness in order to accompany her husband into internment and finds that fear and brutality have infected the closed community. An all out war erupts between inmates as criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak over food and other necessities. As the sole sighted inmate, The Doctor’s Wife is the only one who can put a stop to the violence, but saving her loved ones may mean sinking to the level of the worst of her adversaries. Julianne Moore gives a performance of startling strength and vulnerability in a frightening portrait of a society thrust into a vicious struggle for survival.
You can read the movie review from Movie Room Reviews, our DVD reviews partner. Blindness is available today everywhere.
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I would love this! I think Julianne Moore is a great actress. Thanks for the giveaway!
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I thought The Constant Gardener was really good. I’d love to see this next work by that director.
I love to read and my husband loves to watch movies. This would be great for BOTH of us!!! Sounds like an awesome read/watch!!
I’d love to win because I love Jose Saramago, and I’ve been intrigued by this story for a long time.
I adore movies made from books. It would be great to have both on hand. It would be like watching a Trilogy or Sitcom on DVD. Thanks so much!!
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I would love to win first because I am an avid reader, second because I love Julianne Moore and Danny Glover movies. And I especially love suspense thriller movies like this. But most of all because reading and dvd are our only entertainment.
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I would love to win this because its everything I like. The genre is my favorite and the story line sounds really really good. I love reading and watching movies so this would be a double double win. Thank you!
This usually isn’t my kind of movie, but when I saw the trailers I was really drawn to it. I didn’t have a chance to see it in the theater, so I’m now on the (looong) list to borrow it from the library. And I would assume the book is that much better. So many times the book can describe psychologically so much better than the movie!
The book is on my TBR list and it sounds amazing. I’d read the book before watching the movie though
The movie sounds awesome too, and not just because Mark Ruffalo is hot (especially in Just Like Heaven & 13 Going On 30!) Thanks for the chance to win!
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I have wanted to see the movie and to win the book would be great. I’d read the book before watching the movie for sure!
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I love books and my husband loves movies. Its nice when we can discuss the differences between the two when a movie is adapted from the book. This particular movie/book sounds really great.
that looks like a great movie, must have missed it at the theatre
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I’d love to see this movie, it’s my genre, Thanks!!
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I love thrillers and Julianna Moore and Danny Glover are two of my favorites. I’d be “thrilled” to win!
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I would love to win! I love to compare the book to the movie. I also really like Danny Glover as an actor.
Sign me up for a chance to win. This book has been on my TBR stack for a while.
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Nothing is better than having the book and the movie right there ready to watch/read! I am not sure if I should read or watch first! I saw the trailer for this and it looked great! Thanks so much for the chance!
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I really want to see this movie – thank you for the chance!
They both look fabulous. I always enjoy reading the book first and then seeing the movie. The book always has more background information and knowing the background info makes the movie more enjoyable for me.
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