Genres: Thriller Countries: USA Actors: 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 Byrne Barry Anthony Cannata Ned Greg Noonan Frank Heather Schwartz Young Emma Marilyn Dodds Frank Emma's Mother Michael Stuart Kirkpatrick Michael Sean C. Cleland Drover Directors: Michael Apted IMDB Rating: 6 out of 10 (2434 votes)

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1: Illusion. Deception. Murder. In the blink of an eye things are not what they seem.

2: What you can't see, can kill you.

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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}

Twenty years ago, 8-year-old Emma Brody’s abusive mother smashed Emma’s face into a bathroom mirror just for pilfering in the mother’s makeup drawer. Today, Emma is an independent, self-assured woman who plays violin in a popular Celtic folk band in Chicago. Emma lives life on her own terms, only without sight — the result of the traumatic injuries to her eyes at the hands of her mother. Luckily for Emma, medical science has vaulted a quantum leap in the past two decades. Now, thanks to corneal implants installed by her kindly eye surgeon, Dr. Ryan Pierce, Emma can see again. Emma’s sight is at first cloudy, and she suffers from “retroactive hallucinations,” a clinically documented syndrome in which the newly sighted sometimes “see” things hours, or even days, after they actually happen. This becomes a big problem when Emma sees a suspicious man leaving her neighbor’s apartment at 4AM, but his features appear to her only in flashback later that morning. After failing to get a response at the neighbor’s door, Emma tries to convince detective John Hallstrom and his partner Tom Ridgely to check things out. At first, Hallstrom dismisses Emma as a nutcase, but when the cops finally arrive on the scene, they find the guy murdered, using the same MO as a series of killings that Hallstrom and Ridgely are already investigating. Emma herself is in danger, because she’s the only person who can identify the killer. Hallstrom’s colleagues remain doubtful because Emma’s vision flawed. When the killer begins to stalk Emma, Hallstrom has her placed under police protection, and the two soon become lovers while Hallstrom tries to figure out who the killer is. Written by Todd Baldridge

Emma is a blind cellist who finally gets the opportunity to get to see. Meanwhile, a string of bizzar rapes and murders has taken place. All of the victims have had transplants within the last month. A coincidence, or is Emma next? Written by Anonymous

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