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Eyewear in Movies

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661 Sindhu Bhairavi 1985 drama; musical K. Balachander

- Sivakumar as the singer J.K. Balaganapathi with a frame akin to the browline style but not quite that. In fact his eyewear is more interesting because of the three dimensional play with the contrast between polished metal and black parts. The eyepieces are square shaped. Single bridge.
- Unidentified actor in polished steel rimmed glasses with browbar (lower bridge is straight).
- Unidentified actor in polished steel rimmed glasses with browbar (double bridge is in shape of an inverted u).
- Unidentified actor in horn rimmed glasses.
- Unidentified actor as rival singer in horn rims whose show is interrupted by lead character.
- Unidentified actress as elderly woman with horn rimmed glasses.
- Unidentified actress as lead character's wife with large metal glasses with plus lenses when reading a letter.
- Indian movie with Tamil and Telugu dialogue / lyrics.
662 Single Man, A 2009 drama Tom Ford - Colin Firth in black horn rimmed glasses as Prof. George Falconer.
663 Skeletons 1996 thriller David DeCoteau

Ron Silver portrays the Pullitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Crane who runs himself and his family into trouble by investigating a murder case in an isolated rural community. In tune with this urban intellectual character, Silver wears glasses that look distinguished and trendy at the same time. Temples, top and endpieces are a mottled beige and dark brown plastic. The eyepiece bottoms are a metal wire and there's a simple black bridge. The least one can say is that the character is quite a handsome guy. Any less attractive characters in glasses, you ask. Well, there's the teacher Mrs. Galloway (Jennifer Rhodes) and the retarded man Toby (Pat Thomas). Both are town locals wearing dark round plastic frames.
664 Slap Her, She's French 2002 comedy Melanie Mayron

Piper Perabo as the French exchange student Genevieve LePlouff dons classic black plastic frame with butterfly shaped rims at some times.
Michael McKean in wire framed glasses as Monsieur Duke.
665 Sleepwalkers 1992 horror Mick Garris

Stephen King wearing his own glasses in a cameo part as a graveyard caretaker.
666 Slugs 1987 horror J. Piquer Simon

Santiago Alvarez wears round havanna plastic frames as John Foley, who is a scientist mostly shown in his lab and one of the heroes in the story. Movie glasses cliche, whatsoever.
Harriet L. Stark as Mrs Fortune, a very assertive middle aged citizen wears black cat eye frames which would have been in vogue when she was a young woman back in the fifties and don't fit her face at all.
A middle aged business man wears metal frames of the non-descript type.
Two female students in Mrs Brady's class sport the large plastic type of frames typical of the seventies and eighties, although the copyright year of the movie would be toward the end of this eyewear fashion era.
667 Smilla's Sense of Snow 1997 drama; thriller Bille August

Vanessa Redgrave's character Elsa Lübing is seen wearing a crystal plastic frame.
668 Smoke 1995 drama Wayne Wang

William Hurt as the writer Paul Benjamin.
669 Smother 2007 comedy; drama Vince Di Meglio

Diane Keaton in fair curls and glasses as Marilyn Cooper.
670 Snake Eyes 1998 action; thriller Brian De Palma

Carla Gugino as Julia Costello enters the action wearing round metal glasses. She loses them early on in the story and has to avoid her enemies while not being able to see clearly.
671 Snow Angels 2007 drama David Gordon Green

Haven't seen this movie yet. Notes based on stills.
Olivia Thirlby wears cat eye glasses as Lila Raybern.
672 Snow Wonder 2005 drama Peter Werner

Actress Michelle Krusiec as teleprompter writer Joey.
Christmas movie made for TV.
673 Soeur Sourire 2009 biography Stijn Coninx

This film is still in production at the moment of writing.

Cécile de France as Soeur Sourire, the Belgian nun who became a one hit wonder and lived unhappily ever after.
674 Soldaat van Oranje 1977 drama; war Paul Verhoeven

Rutger Hauer in round steel rimmed glasses as Erik Lanshof.
Dutch dialogue. Movie made in the Netherlands.
English title: Soldier of Orange.
675 Some Like it Hot 1959 comedy; crime Billy Wilder
676 Sometimes They Come Back 1991 horror Tom McLoughlin

In this made for television movie after Steven King, T. Max Graham (as Chief Pappas) wears unfashionable metal-rimmed glasses that reach higher than his eyebrows.
677 Song for Marion 2012
comedy
drama
 Paul Andrew Williams Vanessa Redgrave in plastic eyewear as the title character.
678 Sorority Row 2009 horror Stewart Hendler

- Rumer Willis - as Ellie Morris - wears black plastic glasses featuring rather large roundish lenses with a seemingly insignificant prescription.
679 Sound of My Voice 2011
drama
thriller
 Zal Batmanglij

- Christopher Denham as Peter Aitken in black clubmaster style glasses.
680 Source, The 2002 fantasy; horror Steve Taylor

Johnny Venocur sports rectangular metal eyewear as the protagonist's father. This supporting character is a teacher by name of Jerry Hauser.

Ronald Rezac puts on unfashionable glasses from time to time as the elderly Principal McKinley.

Anna de Cardi wears plastic eyewear in the role of the gorgeous - though prejudiced - Miss Dunn.

One more male actor occurs in oversized plastic eyewear as a middle aged teacher.

Warning: this title seems to be on the market under the alternative titles 'The Secret Craft' and
'The Surge'.