Robert Urich (Thomas Booker)	1992	Lisa Eilbacher (Carolyn)

Ron Perlman (Frank Cerrillo)	Patricia Clarkson (Dr. Virginia Hertz)	Ken Pogue (Sergeant Grady)

Four years ago, professor Thomas Booker (Robert Urich) was plunged into a world of darkness, blinded by an accident that robbed him of his sight, his girlfriend and his dreams.

After extensive rehabilitation and psychoanalysis, Booker put his life back together, coming to terms with both the loss of his vision and of his girlfriend, Carolyn (Lisa Eilbacher) to his best friend, Frank (Ron Perlman).

But Booker's stable existence erupts into a personal hell when he discovers his next-door neighbour, Mary, (who is also Carolyn's aunt) has been murdered and that he is being sought as the prime suspect.

Booker becomes a fugitive, running from the law and a mysterious killer he cannot see.

As he tries to untangle the mystery and clear his name, he realises the murderer is someone very close to him. But for Booker, this discovery may have come too late.

REVIEWS

'BLIND MAN'S BLUFF'
By Rick Sherwood
The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, February 19, 1992.

USA Network's "Blind Man's Bluff" is an excellent psychosexual thriller that works because of fine acting, an intelligent script, and because it never tries to overachieve.

Robert Urich turns in an impressive performance as a sensitive but troubled former college professor suffering from traumatic blindness. The smooth, believable manner in which his character unfolds gives this project much of its power.

Urich is surrounded by a solid cast who help weave the story of friendship, passion and murder in a film that revolves around a succession of murders that point to Urich as primary suspect. That cast provides strong performances from Lisa Eilbacher as his former fiancé, Ron Perlman as his best friend and her current fiancé, and especially Patricia Clarkson as a therapist who falls in love with her blind patient. They help give the film its compelling edge.

Refreshingly, the film uses its central character's blindness to create the suspense rather than as a peg on which to build the entire story, treating it more as an incidental aspect of the plot than its linchpin. His relationships with each of the characters are what define the story and bring its ultimate resolution.

There are lapses in the film and some scenes that don't quite make sense in the context of this film, but in the end "Blind Man's Bluff" remains a taut little tale about life, love and passion.

'BLIND MAN'S BLUFF' Worth Seeing
by Kay Gardella
New York Daily News February 19, 1992

I'm not bluffing when I say tonight's 'Blind Man's Bluff,' on cable's USA at 9, is a complicated, convoluted thriller that, while implausible at times, is a good time waster. It at least keeps you wondering what's going to happen next.

Robert Urich, who has become a dependable and very likable actor, stars here as Thomas Booker, a blind history professor still working out his rage with a psychiatrist over the loss of his vision. He's also trying to deal with the breakup from his ex-girlfriend, Carolyn (Lisa Eilbacher).

The psychiatrist, Dr. Virginia Herz (Patricia Clarkson), is professionally cool with Booker in the beginning, but she soon is attracted to him and ultimately becomes a catalyst in a very dangerous situation. What Booker doesn't know is that Herz is also his Carolyn's therapist. His ex has her problems, too. She has become engaged to the professor's best friend, Frank (Ron Perlman), but still insists she loves him.

Booker, in the habit of checking in with Carolyn's elderly aunt, who lives in his apartment building, one day finds her door open, and his Seeing-Eye dog leads him to her murdered body. With his fingerprints all over everything, he's the No. 1 suspect. The distraught Carolyn immediately goes to him, not Frank, for comfort, and assures the police he couldn't be the killer.

But more bodies turn up. Booker's assistant is killed, as is another woman, with whom Booker was sexually involved. She's found on his bed. Big trouble for Booker, who has to find the killer in order to clear himself.