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Hysterical Blindness (HBO, TV-14) Thelma and Louise dealt with man trouble
by driving of a cliff. Lovelorn Jersey girls – mellow single mother
Beth (Juliette Lewise) and high-strung adult-child Debby (Uma Thurman)
- are too sheepish, needy, and wild about caaahs to take the plunge. Instead
the Aqua Net addicts doggedly hit the baaahs, and thus begins a cycle
of rejection and depression. Set in the 1980s, the movie’s soundtrack
(Bruce, Benatar) plays like a hysteria-Inducing tease, and Thurman –
who deserves an Emmy for her body language alone – will make you
quiver when she breaks down, asking a bartender, "What’s wrong
with me?" After all, even her mother (Gena Rowlands) lands a sexy,
wise widower (Ben Gazzara). Chick flicks be damned; Blindness is in a
language of its own. A –
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