By Bill Newcott, The Saturday Evening Post
Sight dramatizes the true story of Dr. Ming Wang, who survived China’s Cultural Revolution, escaped to the United States, and became a world-renowned eye surgeon.
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By Glenn Kenny, May 23, 2024. The New York Times
Based on the real life of the pioneering ophthalmologist Ming Wang, this movie follows the character’s struggle to see inside himself.
Terry Chen, left, and Greg Kinnear in “Sight,” directed by Andrew Hyatt.
Ming Wang, the real-life physician whose biography is the basis for this fictional feature, is a Nashville-based ophthalmologist whose degree in laser physics has presumably been a boon in his work restoring sight to visually impaired patients, many of whom are children.
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By Rick Bentley, May 23, 2024, KGET.com
There is no escaping the irony that in “Sight,” one of America’s most talented eye doctors, Ming Wang (Terry Chen), must get past his own emotional blindness to really be able to see the world. It is a journey that starts in his homeland of Communist China and ends with an operation on a small girl from India. The eye-opening trek is made all that more powerful by the fact the film is based on a true story.
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By Mark Hughes, Forbes.com
In a weekend dominated by summer franchise tentpole releases Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Garfield Movie, director Andrew Hyatt’s true story Sight — based on Dr. Ming Wang’s autobiography From Darkness to Sight, adapted for the screen by cowriters Hyatt, John Duigan, and Buzz McLaughlin — plays as counter-programming for adult viewers look for something down to earth at the box office.
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