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5.9Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Cast
- Jessica Alba as Sydney Wells
- Alessandro Nivola as Dr. Paul Faulkner
- Parker Posey as Helen Wells
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Alicia Millstone
- Rade Šerbedžija as Simon McCullough
- Mia Stallard as Little Girl
Themes
- dying and death
- blindness and impaired vision
- eye operation
- eyesight
- sibling relationship
- afterlife
- classical music
- eye
- sister
- eye specialist
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Ratings
IMDb
5.4/10
57,304 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
22%
Metacritic
36/100
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- David Moreau, Xavier Palud
- Screenplay by
- Sebastian Gutierrez
- Based on
- The Eye (Jian gui) , by Pang brothers , Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui
- Produced by
- Paula Wagner , Don Granger , Michelle Manning
- Starring
- Jessica Alba , Alessandro Nivola , Parker Posey , Rade Šerbedžija
- Cinematography
- Jeffrey Jur
- Edited by
- Patrick Lussier
- Music by
- Marco Beltrami
- Production companies
- Cruise/Wagner Productions , Vertigo Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Lionsgate , Paramount Vantage
- Release date
- February 1, 2008 ( 2008-02-01 )
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Countries
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $12 million
- Box office
- $58 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Eye
- Screenwriter
- Sebastian Gutierrez
- Cast member
- Tegan Moss
- Composer
- Marco Beltrami
- Production company
- Cruise/Wagner Productions
- Narrative location
- Mexico
- Filming location
- New Mexico
- Duration
- 98
- FilmAffinity ID
- 549233
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.lionsgate.com/theeye
- Image
- Moreau-Alba-Palud-The-Eye.JPG
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- Commons category
- The Eye (2008 film)
- publication date
- 2008-05-29
- title
- The Eye
- film editor
- Patrick Lussier
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- Oko
- review score
- 36/100
- capital cost
- 12000000
- box office
- 56.964
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Eye is a 2008 supernatural horror film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, written by Sebastian Gutierrez, and starring Jessica Alba, Parker Posey, Alessandro Nivola, and Rade Šerbedžija. It is a remake of the Pang brothers' 2002 film of the same name.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Eye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.