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Sight (2023 film)
Film by Andrew Hyatt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sight is a 2023 American biographical drama film directed by Andrew Hyatt, written by Hyatt, John Duigan, and Buzz McLaughlin, and starring Terry Chen and Greg Kinnear.[4] The film is about Ming Wang, a Chinese immigrant to the United States who became a renowned eye surgeon. It is based on Wang's 2016 autobiography From Darkness to Sight.[5] The film premiered on October 5, 2023, at the Heartland International Film Festival, and was released in the United States and Canada on May 24, 2024, by Angel Studios.
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Cast
- Terry Chen as Dr. Ming Wang, a Chinese eye surgeon who relocated to Nashville, Tennessee.[4]
- Greg Kinnear as Dr. Misha Bartnovsky, Ming's eye surgeon partner[4]
- Natasha Mumba as Ruth Tarik
- Fionnula Flanagan as Sister Marie
- Mia SwamiNathan as Kajal
- Raymond Ma as Zhensheng
- Donald Heng as young Zhensheng
- Wai Ching Ho as Alian
- Leanne Wang as young Alian
- Garland Chang as Yu Wang
- Jeffrey Pai as Lao Bin
- Sara Ye as Lili
- Natalie Skye as June Bartnovsky
- Danni Wang as Anle
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Production
Filming began in Vancouver in April 2021 and wrapped after a six-week shoot in October 2021.[4][7]
Release
In April 2023, it was reported that Briarcliff Entertainment had acquired distribution rights for Sight and scheduled a release date for October 27, 2023.[8] In February 2024, Angel Studios acquired the rights and scheduled the film to be released on May 24, 2024.[9]
Reception
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 45 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "A faith-based film with a sweetly humanist grounding, Sight blinks at delivering much tonal nuance but delivers its true inspirational tale with moving conviction."[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 42 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[11] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave it an average of 4 1/2 out of 5 stars, with 68% saying they would definitely recommend it.[12][13]
Box office
In the United States and Canada, Sight was scheduled to be released alongside Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Garfield Movie, and was projected to gross around $3 million from 2,100 theaters in its four-day opening weekend.[14] It went to debut on $2.8 million at the first weekend, finishing seventh at the box office.[15]
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