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Blinded by the Light(Movie, 2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Genres: Drama, Comedy
Blinded by the LightRating: 3.5/5 (with 252252 votes)
Blinded by the Light (also known as Music of My Life) is a 2019 comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha. It was inspired by the life of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and his love of the works of Bruce Springsteen. Manzoor co-wrote the script with Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. It is based on Manzoor's 2007 memoir Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N' Roll. Set in the town of Luton in 1987 Britain, the film tells the coming-of-age story of Javed, a British-Pakistani Muslim teenager whose life is changed after he discovers the music of Springsteen. Viveik Kalra stars in the lead role, along with Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon, Kulvinder Ghir and Nell Williams in supporting roles. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Entertainment One in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2019, and New Line Cinema in the United States and other countries on 16 August 2019 via parent company Warner Bros. Pictures. Blinded by the Light received positive reviews from critics, and also ... ()
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About Blinded by the Light

In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.

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BLINDED BY THE LIGHT - Official Trailer(Trailer, 2:24)

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Additional Information

Plays in: England
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 32 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian Nynorsk (NN), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/22/2019 (World premiere: 08/09/2019)
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Producer: Jane Barclay, Gurinder Chadha, Jamal Daniel
Screenwriter: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Sarfraz Manzoor
Film Editor: Justin Krish
Director of Photography: Ben Smithard
Composer: A. R. Rahman
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La Música De Mi Vida"
"A Música da Minha Vida"
"Blinded by the light (Cegado por el sol)"
"Blinded by the light (Cegado por la luz)"
"Blinded by the Light - O Poder da Música"
"Ослепленный светом"
Budget: 15,000,000 USD
Revenue: 18,144,644 USD (= 121%)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:280922, Added: 07/24/2018, Last updated: 03/04/2024