What is the true story behind ‘Sight’? Movie details life of immigrant and surgeon Dr. Ming Wang
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Dr. Ming Wang grew up wanting to be a doctor — and that’s because he comes from a long line of medical professionals.
Ming Wang movie 'Sight' grosses $3.5M, finishes in 7th place at the box office
The producer for the biopic about the ubiquitous Nashville eye surgeon had hoped for $10 million in ticket sales over Memorial Day weekend
By Brad Schmit, May 29, 2024, Tennessean
A Hollywood adaptation of Nashville eye surgeon Ming Wang's story grossed $3.5 million in its opening weekend, according to several movie industry trade organizations.
The movie "Sight" — released by independent inspirational-movie house Angel Studios — fell short of producer David Fischer's hopes for $10 million in ticket sales for its first three days out.
SIGHT: Dr. Ming Wang & Terry Chen Inspire Us to Look Beyond Ourselves
Mark your calendars for May 24th to experience SIGHT, an inspiring faith-based film based on the true story of Dr. Ming Wang. Wang escaped Communist China against all odds, becoming a world-renowned eye surgeon and using his skills to help blind orphans. Don't miss this powerful tale of resilience, faith, and compassion. SIGHT is a must-see!
SIGHT film earns top reviews in debut: ‘Theme of overcoming our past is universal’
Story by Jenny Goldsberry, May 26, 2024, Washington Examiner
Angel Studios’s latest film release, SIGHT, received high reviews while garnering over $1 million in its debut weekend.
SIGHT centers on the life and career of eye surgeon Dr. Ming Wang, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution. Wang attended Harvard and MIT and went on to treat cataract cases via LASIK surgery. He has since established the Wang Vision Institute and the charity Wang Foundation for Sight Restoration.
‘Sight’ Says We Should All Try To Work Miracles For Each Other
By Mark Hughes, Forbes.com
In a weekend dominated by summer franchise tentpole releases Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and The Garfield Movie, director Andrew Hyatt’s true story Sight — based on Dr. Ming Wang’s autobiography From Darkness to Sight, adapted for the screen by cowriters Hyatt, John Duigan, and Buzz McLaughlin — plays as counter-programming for adult viewers look for something down to earth at the box office.
‘Sight’ highlights the journey and faith of an Asian American medical hero who helped the blind see
By Jevon Phillips, Multiplatform Editor, May 25, 2024, Los Angeles Times
Dr. Wang (Terry Chen) and Dr. Bartnovsky (Greg Kinnear) in “Sight.” (Courtesy of Angel Studios)
When Dr. Ming Wang came to the United States in 1982 at 21 years old, he had nothing but $50 and a Chinese-to-English translation book. He had just survived the violent cultural revolution in China — including the loss of a dear friend — during which the government had shut down most of the universities in the country.
‘Sight’ shows the power of combining faith, science
By Rick Bentley, May 23, 2024, KGET.com
There is no escaping the irony that in “Sight,” one of America’s most talented eye doctors, Ming Wang (Terry Chen), must get past his own emotional blindness to really be able to see the world. It is a journey that starts in his homeland of Communist China and ends with an operation on a small girl from India. The eye-opening trek is made all that more powerful by the fact the film is based on a true story.
Restoring ‘Sight,’ One Child at a Time
By Karen Shih, May 24, 2024, Maryland Today.
As a teenager in China during the Cultural Revolution, Ming Wang Ph.D. ’86 faced a bleak future. The government had shut down all colleges and universities. Twenty million youths like him were being sent to rural labor camps. To try to save him from that fate, his parents pushed him to learn Chinese dance and musical instruments, hoping he could instead join a government dance troupe.
‘Sight’ Review: An Eye Doctor’s (Inner) Journey From China
By Glenn Kenny, May 23, 2024. The New York Times
Based on the real life of the pioneering ophthalmologist Ming Wang, this movie follows the character’s struggle to see inside himself.
Terry Chen, left, and Greg Kinnear in “Sight,” directed by Andrew Hyatt.
Ming Wang, the real-life physician whose biography is the basis for this fictional feature, is a Nashville-based ophthalmologist whose degree in laser physics has presumably been a boon in his work restoring sight to visually impaired patients, many of whom are children.
