This song 'Gigi Worth - Love Is Where You Are' is from the soundtrack of the movie 'At First Sight' (1996) by Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. Its quite a touching film and has a fantastic soundtrack! In fact, I was so enchanted by this song that I actually pressed the slow moving button when the credit rolled so that I can see what the title was and who sang it.
This movie is based on a true story about this guy named Virgil (Val Kilmer), who has been blind since early childhood. He's a masseur in a New York State resort town. Amy (Mira Sorvino) is a hard working New York City architect. The two meet when Amy visits the resort to unwind, and it's love at first 'sight', so to speak. The two soon find themselves in a relationship, dominated by Amy's wish that Virgil try cutting-edge surgery in hopes of getting his sight back.
When Virgil decides to go for the surgery and is able to see for the first time in his life, a whole new set of challenges present themselves. He dosen't know what the world looks like and is not prepared to see it. For instance, he doesn't know how a car is like and that it can kill him if he stands in front of a moving car.
This distorts his perception of living in this world. He doesn't just need to learn how to live all over again; he also needs to deal with changed relationships with Amy, his sister and his long-lost father.
Unfortunately, his successful surgery doesn't last long and he goes blind again, but this might actually do him good because it makes him feel 'normal' to live his own way relying on his 4 acute senses than having to live with this 'foreign' thing call sight.
While it's a fairly standard romance, At First Sight also manages to interweave disability issues effectively. Many of us who have not lived with a disability have a lot of trouble understanding how people with disabilities see themselves.
Anyway, check out its official website at MGM...the main thing here is that the entire soundtrack songs are listed and you can actually hear sample audio files on each song! This CD had to be my next item in my shopping list!
http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=SIGHTUNS
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