SnoopyStyle James (Dan Stevens) is blind, married to Sam (Malin Akerman) with young son Jonah. He works at a call center with other blind people including his friend Bob (Oliver Platt). One morning, he wakes up cured of his blindness. His personality changes. His flirtations with co-worker Jessica (Kerry Bishé) get serious.There are some good actors doing good work but this movie is stuck in a slow, disjointed, cold art-house world. It also fails as a character study for a simple reason. His change at the very start makes it hard to know James' personality before his turn. It's hard to know the degree of his change, or feel for Sam's loss. This film just leaves me feeling cold and pining for the lost potential.

ccreagor I don't usually exert the effort to write a review, but it's something of a crime that this movie gets such low reviews on IMDb. The other reviewers are the type of people who feel the need to cast their judgment on a film just because it doesn't fit their very narrow definition of a worthwhile film. Does The Ticket ask more questions than it answers? Sure. But you could hardly say it moves too fast to adequately deal with them. One of the beauties of this film is its slow, methodical pace. And the cinematography alone is worth your time. Don't pass judgment based on this film's reviews and decide for yourself.

curtissewell OK, so my wife and I just finished watching this film and I can say that it was a little hard to not think that the movie was going to be not so great based on the ratings we saw for it. But as the movie went on it was surprisingly better than the ratings the critics gave it. I thought the acting was done really well and the storyline - although a little on the slow side, turned out to be interestingly thought provoking… How would you react if suddenly one day you woke up from being blind for many years?? Would your ambitions change?? Would you allow your own selfish ambition to destroy everything you previously loved?? Though it would be a change indeed, how would I respond to that change?? Well, it seems that is what this film is about. One man's response to how he woke up one day able to see. The movie does tend to focus a lot on James (actor Dan Stevens) much more than the characters around him like his wife, son, best friend, etc, but I don't think that was done too heavily. It just seems like the story was told in a way from James' perspective instead of from others. That kinda makes sense since he is the one who went from being blind to able to see again. Really it seemed the worst part about the movie was the music. It was too dreary from beginning to end (maybe with exception from the dancing music). Seriously, it didn't match most of the film and had they went another direction with the music it really would have made a better impact on this movie. It seemed it never changed from the dreariness, but it should have. It really only communicated 2 emotions - sadness and mystery. Though those two emotions were definitely a part of the film, the story had much more to offer than that… the joy and excitement of being able to see again, the fun James and his son had looking for fish, the hope and comfort James experiences near the end of the film, etc. Despite the seemingly wrong direction with the music and kinda slowly unfolding story, it's still worth a watch.

Larry Silverstein Dan Stevens stars here as James, a man who suddenly regains his sight, after many years, when a pituitary brain tumor shrinks. At first, he celebrates with his loving wife Sam (Malin Akerman) and his 13-year-old son Jonah (Skylar Gaertner). However, soon James wants more in his life and this leads to strong marital discord and his engaging in shady and manipulative business practices at his real estate company job.This will all eventually lead to predictable consequences, and the film became to me a very slow paced melodrama that I didn't really enjoy. The very vague and ambiguous ending certainly didn't help any either.