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Witness (1985)
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When Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy traveling with his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis), witnesses the murder of a police officer in a public restroom, he and his mother become the temporary wards of John Book (Harrison Ford), a detective who's been assigned to solve the crime. After suspect lineups and mug-shot books yield nothing, Samuel, in the most memorable scene of the film, recognizes the murderer as a narcotics agent whose picture he sees in the precinct. Once Book realizes that the police chief is in on it, too, he whisks Samuel and Rachel back home to Amish country, where he himself goes into hiding as a plain Amish man. The...
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Witness Movie Review by Zara  (4/3/2007) |
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This is a great thriller, a movie where a cop goes to live amongst the Amish after a young Amish boy identifies a cop as being the killer of another cop. You know that a movie is good enough if it can impress my grandmother who hates nudity in film and yet was able to tolerate the scene where McGillis is shown topless...
(complete Witness review by Zara)
| Witness Movie Review by Jarrod (2/19/2008) |
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'Witness' is both a superb thriller and a superb love story, and how it blends the two together so well is one of its most impressive qualities. This is arguably Peter Weir's best movie, and it features what is arguably Harrison Ford's best performance. It gives him a chance to really act, in a way he is not required to...
(complete Witness review by Jarrod)
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