Sappy but carefully crafted romance between the blind masseur of Bear Mountain Inn and Spa and a type-A architect from the Big Apple. Nice scene of experiencing a rainstorm from purely an audio perspective, and the experimental cataract surgery that confers sight on a well-adjusted blind man raises some interesting problems. The process of "learning" to see, the need to supplement sight with touch in order to interpret objects, the inability to read plain English -- this sort of thing gives you something to think about when you don't have something to groan about ("So this is what beautiful looks like" and "You spent your whole life as blind as I was" and so forth). With Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison, Nathan Lane, and in a cocktail-lounge cameo, in addition to just her voice over the closing credits, jazz singer Diana Krall; directed by Irwin Winkler. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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