Eyewitness (1981)

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Fresh off the success of Breaking Away(1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a thriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver. When she arrives at his building to interview the tenants about a murder that's occurred on the premises, the janitor, having discovered the body, implies that he knows more than he's saying in order to keep the newswoman interested. Although he reveals nothing more, she does become interested in him, and when her nefarious aristocratic boyfriend (Christopher Plummer) learns from the unwitting woman that there's someone with knowledge of the murder, he's more concerned about what Hurt might know than about her relationship with him. Meanwhile, his paranoid, loose cannon of a friend James Woods has managed to get himself incriminated, although he had no involvement in the case. Hurt and Weaver continue to investigate the murder together, and as they become more closely entwined, both of their lives are put in jeopardy. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi

Starring:: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, (more)

Director(s):: Peter Yates

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: R

Format(s):: DVD
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Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 102 mins

Complete Cast of Eyewitness

William Hurt - Daryll Deever
Christopher Plummer - Joseph
Irene Worth - Mrs. Sokolow
Morgan Freeman - Lieutenant Black
Albert Paulsen - Mr. Sokolow
Alice Drummond - Mrs. Deever
Chao Li Chi - Long
Jeremy Ritzer
Howard Feuer
Keone Young - Mr. Long's Son
Jhoe Breedlove - Woman

Sigourney Weaver - Tony Sokolow
James Woods - Aldo
Kenneth McMillan - Mr. Deever
Pamela Reed - Linda
Steven Hill - Lieutenant Jacobs
Sharon Goldman - Israeli Woman
Bill Mazer - Sports Announcer
Richard Dale Murphy - News Crew
Henry Yuk - Vietnamese
Mischa Bogin - Shlomo
Mark Burns - Man on TV

Director(s):: Peter Yates

Writer(s):: Steve Tesich

Producer(s):: Peter Yates

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: R(Adult Situations, Profanity, Violence, Not For Children)

Categories:: Mystery & Suspense

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