When one man is struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world is turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters suffers the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and paranoia sets in, the newly blind victims of the "White Sickness" are quarantined (more...)within an abandoned mental asylum. But, inside the quarantined hospital, there is one woman who has only pretended she is blind in order to stay beside her husband. She will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city where they may be the only hope left.

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Rated R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity

Length: 118 minutes

Released: October 3, 2008 Nationwide

Score: 2.0

Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Sandra Oh, Gael García Bernal, Danny Glover

Director: Fernando Meirelles
Producer: Niv Fichman, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Sonoko Sakai
Writer: José Saramago, Don McKellar
Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Distributor: Miramax