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Witness (1985) A+ Witness is newly available in a bare-bones Blu-ray edition from Warner Bros. SDG Original source: Crux. There is not a wasted or unnecessary shot in Peter Weir’s Witness, or a superfluous line of dialogue. Like the great barn-raising scene late in the second act, the film’s construction is both efficient and unhurried ...
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's ...
Our review: Parents say ( 4 ): Kids say ( 2 ): Witness is a well made fish-out-of-water story, contrasting the violence and complications of the big city with the simpler lifestyle of the Amish, who decline modern technology. Book is initially perplexed by their choices, but gradually comes to appreciate their quiet ways.
Witness is a 1985 American Dutch romantic crime drama movie directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubeš, Josef Sommer, Danny Glover, Angus MacInnes, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Earl Jones. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and won 2 Oscars in 1986.
Helpful • 354 7. When shooting the murder in the men's room scene, Peter Weir claimed it was the most violent scene he'd ever filmed. Even today, he still thinks it was perhaps too violent. But he wanted to have an outrage over the violence that occurred before the eyes of an innocent Amish boy. Helpful • 213 3.
Audience Score. 71. R 1 hr 52 min Feb 8th, 1985 Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance. A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and ...
