Another great idea from Woody's bedside drawer - film director goes psychosomatically blind but can't tell anyone or his career is over. Amongst others he's helped by Chinese translator Barney Cheng, pictured below, with investigative journalist Jodie Markell on his right:
Leading to some undeniably funny scenes where Woody blindly confronts sexy actress Tiffani Thiessen, studio head Treat Williams, the problem is that Woody spends a lot of the film looking into mid-air (where you'd look towards the sound source), so there's rather too much of this stuff going on:
No problem with any of the other performances, Woody's agent in particular played with warm stoicism by film director Mark Rydell.
Pictured above Woody, Rydell, Téa Leoni (good in long takes), George Hamilton, Treat Williams.
Debra Messing is Woody's girlfriend, Yu Lu is the cameraman, Erica Leerhsen an actress.
It's shot by Wedigo Von Schutlzendorff and designed by Santo Loquato. (Scene showing the creatives discussing redesigning Central Park is funny - 'I cannot work with green'.)
At 112 minutes it's one of Woody's longest.
"Every husband should go blind for a while."
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