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| Madeleine Stowe | ... | Emma Brody | |
| Aidan Quinn | ... | Detective John Hallstrom | |
| James Remar | ... | Thomas Ridgely | |
| Peter Friedman | ... | Dr. Ryan Pierce | |
| Bruce A. Young | ... | Lt. Mitchell | |
| Laurie Metcalf | ... | Candice | |
| Matt Roth | ... | Officer Crowe | |
| Paul Dillon | ... | Neal Booker | |
| Michael P. Byrne | ... | Barry | |
| Anthony Cannata | ... | Ned | |
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Greg Noonan | ... | Frank |
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Heather Schwartz | ... | Young Emma |
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Marilyn Dodds Frank | ... | Emma's Mother |
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Michael Stuart Kirkpatrick | ... | Michael |
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Sean C. Cleland | ... | Drover |
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Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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What you can't see, can kill you. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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26 January 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Treptaj See more »Filming Locations:
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$11,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$16,696,219Company Credits
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Performed by Kevin Burke
Written by Bill Monroe
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Emma grabs a gun from the police car and fires off shots at her attacker. It is extremely unlikely that she has ever handled a gun before due to her blindness. Yet she handles the gun expertly, even managing to know that there is a safety catch and how to deactivate it. See more »Quotes
Emma Brody: The last time I looked I was a little girl. And I, I blink, and I look like my mother.See more »
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JERUSALEM RIDGEPerformed by Kevin Burke
Written by Bill Monroe
Courtesy of Green Linnet Records
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An Talented Musician (Madeleine Stowe) is having her eyes restored after twenty years of blindness. After the successful operation, she's becomes a key witness to a murder but her brain is having trouble to make a visual information on the killer. The police thinks, she's a crackpot but expect for one detective (Aidan Quinn) is trying to help her.
Directed by Michael Apted (Coal's Miner Daughter, Gorialls in the Mist, Enigma) made an intriguing suspense thriller that is well made, funny, entertaining & thanks to the sharp performances by Stowe and Quinn makes this one more than an enjoyable film. Perphas it's a bit heavy handed for some tastes, because of Stowe's character has "retroactive vision" problem. In real life "retroactive vision" isn't fictional as some believed. There's something unique to this movie than the usual woman in jeopardy pictures.
DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer (Also in Pan & Scan) and an good-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD's only feature is the original theatrical trailer. This film didn't find much success at the box office, despite being well received by the critics. This certainly play well on Video. This picture has excellent cinematography by Dante Spinotti (The Haunting "1999", Manhunter, Red Dragon) and this was certainly one of the few (and best) underrated thrillers that came out in the early 1990's. Super 35. (****/*****).