Home >> Letter M >>

Madeleine Stowe

Blink (1993)

Nude scene:

Length 0:32		3,743 kb

SEE THIS CLIP AND 1,000 OTHERS
IN OUR FREE MOVIE SECTION

Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Madeleine Stowe, Peter Friedman, Aidan Quinn, James Remar

Plot: Blind since she was child, Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe) experiences a miracle--a dead woman's eyes have been donated to her, allowing Emma to see again. But before she's had the opportunity to grow accustomed to her blurry vision, she witnesses a brutal murder. Working with a handsome detective (Aidan Quinn), she tries to help the police locate the murderer before the murderer locates her. Director Michael Apted (COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER and GORILLAS IN THE MIST) has always been concerned about creating stronger, more complicated female characters in mainstream films, and with BLINK he has succeeded. In more than 200 films with blind characters, blind men have danced, taken photographs, and performed rescues, while blind women have usually been terrified, hapless victims; Emma, as played by Stowe, breaks with that tradition. In her first major role after LAST OF THE MOHICANS, Stowe bristles as an independent woman who has long taken care of herself and doesn't want to be protected by the police.
Theatrical release: January 26, 1994. Shot on location in Chicago. Estimated budget: $11 million. BLINK grossed nearly $17 million at the domestic box office. Emma Brody was originally supposed to be a poet. She was changed to a classical violinist, then a rock violinist. The film features the music of the alternative Irish American band the Drovers. "All of us dreaded the idea of the poor girl in peril. I thought she [Madeleine Stowe] might embrace the character's more fragile aspects. But Madeleine really came at it with strong single-mindedness that this woman is not a victim. She's created a woman who is much closer to her own personality than anything she's played before."--Michael Apted to the St. Louis Dispatch.

When a blind musician recovers her sight, she witnesses a murder and, while battling lapses in sight and visual hallucinations, tries to help locate the killer before he locates her.

Selected Filmography from IMDB:

Octane (2003) .... Senga Wilson
Avenging Angelo (2002) .... Jennifer Barrett Allieghieri
We Were Soldiers (2002) .... Julie Moore
... aka Wir waren Helden (2002) (Germany)
Magnificent Ambersons, The (2002) (TV) .... Isabel Amberson Minafer
Impostor (2002) .... Maya Olham

General's Daughter, The (1999) .... Warr. Off. Sara Sunhill
... aka Wehrlos - Die Tochter des Generals (1999) (Germany)
Playing by Heart (1998) .... Gracie
Proposition, The (1998) .... Eleanor Barret
Twelve Monkeys (1995) .... Dr. Kathryn Railly
Bad Girls (1994) .... Cody Zamora
China Moon (1994) .... Rachel Munro
Blink (1994) .... Emma Brody
Short Cuts (1993) .... Sherri Shepard
Another Stakeout (1993) (uncredited) .... Maria McGuire
... aka Lookout, The (1993)
... aka Stakeout 2 (1993)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) .... Cora Munro
Unlawful Entry (1992) .... Karen Carr
Closet Land (1991) .... Victim
Two Jakes, The (1990) .... Lillian Bodine
Revenge (1990) .... Mireya Mendez

Tropical Snow (1989) .... Marina
... aka Nieve tropical (1989) (Colombia)
Worth Winning (1989) .... Veronica Briskow
Stakeout (1987) .... Maria McGuire
Blood & Orchids (1986) (TV) (as Madeline Stowe) .... Hester Ashley Murdoch
Amazons (1984) (TV) .... Dr. Sharon Fields
"Gangster Chronicles, The" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Ruth Lasker
... aka "Gangster Chronicles: An American Story, The" (1981) (mini)
"Beulah Land" (1980) (mini) TV Series .... Selma Kendrick Davis
Deerslayer, The (1978) (TV) .... Hetty Hutter
Nativity, The (1978) (TV) (as Madeline Stowe) .... Mary

Skinography courtesy of Mr Skin:

Blink 1994
China Moon 1994

Short Cuts 1993

Unlawful Entry 1992

Revenge 1990

The Two Jakes 1990
Tropical Snow 1989

Stakeout 1987

Wanna get laid tonight? Then meet these REAL girls near you...