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Witness

Cast

Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas View All

Crew

Peter Weir (Director), William Kelley (Screenplay), Earl W. Wallace (Screenplay), Pamela Wallace (Writer) View All

Release: Feb. 8th, 1985

Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes

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 beautiful mother.

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JayDee
It's the romance between Book and Rachel; it's Samuel's fascination of Book's ways and the surrogate father/son bond that threatens to develop between them; it's Eli's guardian watching over both Book and Rachel, attempting to keep an eye out for both of them.

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Iroquois
I understand how Weir is more interested in examining characters reacting to an external conflict rather than the conflict itself (which is best exemplified by Ford's budding romance with Kelly McGillis as the titular witness's widowed mother, which does draw the ire of others in the community), and....