This article is about the 1993 made-for-TV thriller. For the 2009 feature film about an American football player, see
The Blind Side (film).
Blind Side is an HBO thriller movie for television filmed in 1993, starring Rutger Hauer, Rebecca De Mornay, and Ron Silver, and directed by Geoff Murphy.
Synopsis
The premise of the story is that of a married couple, Lynn and Doug Kaines (De Mornay and Silver), owners of an exotic furniture design company, had visited Mexico, and on their night time return trip, with her at the wheel, they accidentally ran into and killed a Mexican police officer in the middle of the road. As it was, Mrs. Kaines was in her first term of pregnancy. They made no report of the accident lest they undergo the perils of a Mexican jail, but slid the dead cop to the side of the road and spirited their way back to the US. They had the front end damage to their car repaired clandestinely and had appeared to have gotten away with the incident.
Quite unexpectedly a vagabond named Jake Shell (Hauer), driving a dumpy old camper truck, shows up at their door hinting that he had witnessed the whole incident in Mexico. The character ends up being a ne'er-do-well, parasitic, and pathetic excuse for a human being. The story turns into a muddled entanglement of blackmail, on Shell's part, and appeasement, on the Kaines' part, that ends up in a physical confrontation with Shell and the Kaineses, along with perverse sexual innuendo, and a suspenseful attempt for the Kaines to rid themselves of this nemesis without playing their hand concerning the Mexico incident to the law.
The movie aired on HBO in late 1993 and on NBC in early 1994.
Cast
Film particulars
- Run time: 98 min
- Country and language: USA / English
- Color: in color
- Sound: Dolby
Locations
The movie was shot in three major locations. The opening scene in Mexico was shot last in Cabo San Lucas after the American location shoots. The accident scene was shot over a two week period in Agua Dulce, California, mostly with the use of the municipal airport.
The main story of the movie was shot over a three week period in Altadena, California. The furniture/factory showroom used the historic power substation of the Pacific Electric Railway's Mount Lowe line. The building was unoccupied and served well for the set. The residential shoot was done at an old mansion at the corner of New York Drive and Mar Vista Street. The house was up for sale and had been vacant for fourteen months.
The location management was handled by Chestnut Hill Productions with Tony Salome as the site manager. Tony played the home economics teacher in the comedy Wild Cats starring Goldie Hahn and Stacy Keach.
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