Mira Nair’s spirited ensemble comedy “Monsoon Wedding” was arguably her most satisfying film since she broke through with “Salaam Bombay!” She follows with her most mishandled effort since “The Perez ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms like paralysis or blindness with no physiological cause. In the past, such events were often described as ...

Debby doesn’t have much luck with men. Her father took off when she was 13, and no guy since then has hung around either. As the HBO movie “Hysterical Blindness” catches up with her, Debby (played by ...

Heightened anxiety impacts a person’s world, including his or her senses. Symptoms such as paralysis, numbness, or blindness, which are not connected to a medical cause, and are often traced to a ...

Debby is a self-destructive New Jersey barfly who is overlooked by men–even though she is played by, and thus looks like, Uma Thurman. If you buy that, you will buy that Debby has a thick Joisey ...