How can you believe your eyes when they're not yours?
Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba,
Fantastic Four - Rise of
the Silver Surfer) is an accomplished,
independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and
has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney
undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole
life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural
ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) helps Sydney with
the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen
(Parker Posey), Sydney learns to see again.
But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as
unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they
a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a
product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's
family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced
that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying
world only she can now see.
The Eye is a bone-chilling supernatural thriller that
tests the boundaries of perception and reality. Directed by David Moreau
and Xavier Palud, the team who directed the suspenseful international hit
Them, The Eye stars Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey.
Produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner with Mike Elliott, Don Granger and
Michelle Manning serving as executive producers.
The original was made in Hong Kong by Thai directing brothers Danny and
Oxide Pang.
WE SAY
The most implausible thing about The Eye isn’t its plot, which is
about a cornea transplant recipient who sees disturbing images in the
mirror that send her on a quest to find out what happened to the eye's
previous owner. Nope, it’s the idea that Jessica Alba is an “accomplished
concert violinist.” Ha-ha!
