Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: At First Sight and Three Men and a Baby.
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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 3pm in Sydney and 4am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies At First Sight from 1999, and Three men and a baby from 1987.
At First Sight is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino.
It is based on the essay "To See and Not See" in neurologist Oliver Sacks's 1995 book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true-life story of Shirl Jennings.
The film was written by Steve Levitt.
During a desperately needed vacation, cynical Manhattanite Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino) meets blind massage therapist Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer).
Directed by: Irwin Winkler.
Screenplay by: Steve Levitt.
Based on: "To See and Not See" by Oliver Sacks.
Produced by: Rob Cowan, and Irwin Winkler.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison, and Nathan Lane.
Cinematography: John Seale.
Edited by: Julie Monroe.
Music by: Mark Isham.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 15 January 1999.
File Length: 134 minutes.
Country: United States.
Budget: $60 million.
Box office: $22.4 million.
Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy.
It stars Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson as three bachelor’s as they attempt to adapt their lives to de facto fatherhood with the arrival of the love child of one of the men.
The script was based on the 1985 French film Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Cradle).
The film was the biggest American box office hit of that year, surpassing Fatal Attraction and eventually grossing $167 million in the United States and Canada and $240 million worldwide.
The film won the 1988 People's Choice Award for Favourite Comedy Motion Picture.
The success of the movie launched a franchise.
Directed by: Leonard Nimoy.
Screenplay by: Jim Cruickshank , and James Orr.
Based on: Trois hommes et un couffin by Coline Serreau.
Produced by: Ted Field, and Robert W. Cort.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Margaret Colin, and Celeste Holm.
Cinematography: Adam Greenberg.
Edited by: Michael A. Stevenson.
Music by: Marvin Hamlisch.
Production Companies: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III, and Interscope Communications.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
Release date: 25 November 1987.
File length: 102 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $11—15 million.
Box office: $240 million.
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