Product Details

• Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar, Peter Friedman, Bruce A. Young
• Directors: Michael Apted
• Writers: Dana Stevens
• Producers: David Blocker, Robert Shaye, Sara Risher
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• VHS Release Date: May 13, 1997
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303914942
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,639 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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One of those iffy medical thrillers, about the aftereffects of corneal transplants on a blind musician (Madeleine Stowe). Doctors tell her that until the transplant fully takes she'll only be seeing shadowy images--and even then, she'll see things that will take a while to register on her brain. Which is troublesome when she witnesses a murder but can't quite make sense of what she's seen. Because the images only become clear after the fact, she can't put them in the kind of chronological order that will make her a useful eyewitness for investigating police detective Aidan Quinn. Toss in a romance between Quinn and Stowe, mix in appropriate dollops of suspense, and you wind up with a fairly mediocre mystery by director Michael Apted, enlivened only by the chemistry between the two leads. --Marshall Fine

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A blind woman, whose sight has only recently been restored, thinks she's witnessed a brutal murder. Starring Madeline Stowe and Aidan Quinn. Directed by Michael Apted. Year: 1994 Director: Michael pted Starring: Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Above average thriller, October 9, 2001

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Dennis Littrell (SoCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blink [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As thrillers go this is above average. True, the premise is a "been there, done that" sort of thing with a romance between the detective and the potential victim with a serial killer in the shadows, etc. However there is just enough originality here added to solid performances by the stars to make it worthwhile.

Aidan Quinn (no relation to Anthony) plays a cute and quirky detective in the Windy City on the trail of a budding serial killer. Madeleine Stowe is a blue grass/Irish violinist blind since she was eight. As the movie opens she is about to get cornea transplants, and before long she can see, sort of, which is important since she has become a witness to murder. Some of what she sees are flashbacks to the day before, which makes her a problem witness for the police. Some other flashbacks are to when her mother smashed her face into a mirror for playing with her make-up. How sick is that? I presume this was dreamed up by Dana Stevens, who gets credit for the script, which is a kind of mishmash of clever lines and shlock dialogue as though two different people (or half a dozen) wrote it.

Michael Apted's direction is not inspired although it isn't all that bad either. But he doesn't develop the serial killer's personality, and so the weirdo's motivation seems a bit of a stretch. Also undeveloped is the doctor whose love for Stowe is unrequited. The main thing is the erotic chemistry between Stowe and Quinn, and the personality of Stowe's character, which is original and the best thing in the movie. I think this would have received a better reception had Quinn's character fallen in madly in love with the violinist. As it plays, we are not sure whether he really cares or not.

Madeleine Stowe is sexy and does a good job in a demanding role, probably the most demanding of her modest career. See it for her.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I SEE YOU...SORT OF, November 17, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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A brilliant performance from Madeline Stowe elevates BLINK in an otherwise slow moving, at times muddled, movie. Stowe plays a blind violinist who receives a corneal transplant that results in her having delayed perceptions, that is seeing things that may have happened a day or so before. This involves her in the murder of a young woman who lives above her, and ultimately brings her to meet Aidan Quinn, an egotistical young detective, who is assigned to the case, and ultimately ends up falling in love with her.
Michael Apted's direction sometimes gets in the way of true suspense, the middle of the movie seeming to slow down, and the killings take second place to the love affair. A red herring is thrown in and you might swallow it, but the identity of the killer once revealed may come as a surprise.
Stowe and Quinn have a good chemistry and good support comes from James Remar and Peter Friedman, but it is Madeleine's marvelous performance that enlightens this film.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Uncommonly Good Performances, April 11, 2002

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Nicholas Rosselli (Chicagoland) - See all my reviews

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It's true that the story may stretch your willingness to believe at times (though it seems that the "delayed vision" phenomena is accurate), what makes this a really good movie is the quality of the acting. Aidan Quinn and Madeline Stowe create real people in this movie - people you could readily run into on the northside of Chicago. There isn't a false note to their performance. The same can also be said for the supporting work of James Remar.

Add to the quality of the performances the visual feel of the movie - Michael Apted has put together solid visual effects with a great and realistic vision of Chicago. This isn't the standard lakeshore/magnificant mile plus generic city that you usually see. This is the Chicago of the neighborhoods.

Finally, the music for this movie introduced me to The Drovers - a Chicago band that is absolutely brilliant. If you're anything like me, the day after you watch this, you'll be out hunting their cd's.