• Blink

  • Hernany Perla
  • Set Up
  • 2014
  • Black List
  • 82.4
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Market: Mon, 17 Nov 2014Sold: Mon, 17 Nov 2014
Producer: Jake Kurily, Aaron Ginsburg, William Green
AgentChris Sablan (Original Artists)
ManagerRyan Cunningham (Madhouse)
FinancierAtlas Independent
Several years after suffering full-body paralysis from an infamous unsolved bank robbery, a man is taken hostage for his secrets. His only form of communication, and only chance of outsmarting his captors, is his ability to blink.
After an intense bank robbery and hostage situation years ago, a fully paralyzed man helps a criminal claim that money by using his only form of communication: blinking.
A bank robber who masterminds the perfect robbery ends up gravely injured. Eight years later he gets the opportunity to set things right.
After involvement in a bank heist eight years ago resulted in full paralysis, a middle-aged man is sprung out of the hospital he lives in by a shady orderly so they can recover the money he's stashed away. His only way of communication with this man is through b
Film
Film, Independent (avant-garde), Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Con, Hostage, Heist, Medical, Mistaken Identity, Handicapped, Disability, Survival
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Unattractive
V/H/S, Enter the Void, [Rec], The Lookout, The Bone Collector, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Heat, The Intouchables,
Present. A Few Days. Flashbacks to different days eight years ago.
Los Angeles: hospital, ambulance, mechanic's garage, forest cabin with porch, woods, desert, parking garage, van with medical equipment. Flashbacks: bar, woods, bank involving a robbery, vault, car.
NURSE ROBIN (40s) shows bumpkin orderly MOE (20s) how to care for patient LOCKHART (Adult). The world, and all the events going forward, are seen from Lockhart’s POV, peppered with blinking, his sole form of communication since full paralysis years ago. One blink means no, and two means yes. As Robin sedates Lockhart per routine, Moe asks about the bank robbery and Robin tells Moe that they don’t talk about it.

Alone, Moe brings Lockhart security footage of the robbery and hostage situation and implicates that Lockhart was the fourth robber not seen on tape. Moe calls Lockhart EDDIE and says that Eddie could be in a prison hospital. Shocked, Eddie’s heart monitor beeps faster and Robin rushes in. Moe whispers to Eddie that he’s his only chance of connecting to the outside world.

While Robin uses a letter board to communicate, Eddie manages to stop Moe from hurting her from behind. Moe leaves and Eddie doesn’t tell Robin anything.

Moe tells Eddie that he’s infamous. Other footage reports that police are unsure why the one safety deposit box was stolen, but the Union Township company was shut down days later. Moe tells Eddie...