For An Eye
With his work-related headaches getting the better of him, Mr. Lange should have reconsidered how fortunate it was
that female optometrist Dr. Holland just happened to be available for an examination that night.

Does anyone actually LIKE eye exams?  Sure, the experience in an optometrists’ room is far better than the torture of dental cleanings, root canals and worse. And they’re much less embarrassing than going to the gynecologist for one’s annual probe. At least for an eye exam, you don’t have to drop any clothes… just your tired butt in the chair.

But in Mike Murphy’s For An Eye, headache prone patient Mr. Lange is about to find out going to the eye doctor hath some grim risks, too….

As the drama/thriller opens, the dilating eye drops we all know so well – and don’t enjoy - have just hit their mark. The lovely physician administering them: Dr. Holland. She’s not Lange’s regular physician for this procedure, but the hour’s late and Dr. O’Rourke unavailable. So Holland’s pinch hitting for now.

Lange soon finds himself blinking in surprise:

LANGE
They work fast. Everything is getting brighter. 

HOLLAND 
That will pass. 

That’s standard for eye exams, true. What ISN’T normal is the effect on Mr. Lange’s arms.

Suddenly, they’ve fallen NUMB. 

After both legs follow suit, Lange realizes much too late this isn’t your average eye exam.  And Dr. Holland’s appointment isn’t what he thinks. Paralyzed, Lange can’t run away.

What diagnosis will Holland give, and why? Read For An Eye – and find out!

A simple shoot, For An Eye just requires a good optometrist office mockup (mostly just an eye chart and a chair) and two terrific actors to bring the suspense home. Do this one right, Directors, and you’ll have audiences cringing at their next eye exam the way Marathon Man and Little Shop of Horrors did for dentistry long ago!