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Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: atmospheric,intillegent,terrific Harrison Ford performance Disadvantages: none
Witness released back in 1985 is one of Harrison fords best movies and certaintly contains his best acting .It is directed by Peter Weir who had earlier acheived fame with Gallipolli(1981) and the Year of living dangerously(1983),both starring Mel Gibson.Ford stars as philadelphia cop John Book who takes into his protection a amish family Rachael( kelly mcgliss) and son Samuel(lukas Haas).The young Samuel witnesses a murder in the toilets at Philadelphia station and is in shock.After seeing a picture at the police station,Ford realises that the murder has been commited by corrupt detectives.After an attempt is made on his life ,he goes into hiding back in the familys Amish community.However the corrupt cops go after him and sets up a tense thriller.
Ford is excellent in his role as John Book,bringing a tough but tender side to his ...
harj123 24.06.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Witness (DVD)
Advantages: Artistic and probing Disadvantages: Not for me
Witness is a 1985 film starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis, and features a moving tale of police protection in the Amish community. The film was critically acclaimed for its brutal handling of what could be a sensitive topic, something which is commonplace in cinema in the 21st Century, and for being very dark, not just in content but in filming as well. Directed by Peter Weir, it is one of the many films that chowcases Harrison Ford's talent as an actor and not just an action star.
Ford plays John Book, a hardnosed cop who must go undercover in the Amish community to protect a young boy named Samuel who is the only witness to a murder. Book befriends Samuel (Lukas Haas) and his mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis) as he becomes emotionally attached to the community as a whole and begins to understand it a little more. But there are ...
pmcds 14.11.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Witness (DVD)
Advantages: Intelligent thriller, good acting, superb director Disadvantages: None
'Witness' (1985) is a film directed by Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show) that manages to be both a gripping thriller, a slow-burning romance, and an intelligent foray into religious beliefs and tolerance.
Rachel Lapp (Kelly McGillis) is a young Amish widow attempting a visit to her sister with her young son Samuel (Lukas Haas) in tow. Delayed at a train station, Samuel accidentally witnesses the murder of a cop. Reluctantly the Amish pair are drawn into the modern 'English' world of which they want no part as Samuel is required to identify the murderers. Part and parcel of this modern world is the streetwise detective John Book (Harrison Ford) whose casual approach to all the things that horrify Rachel illustrates the gulf between their two cultures.
As the film goes on Book is in turn reluctantly immersed ...
Robs86 06.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Witness (DVD)
When a popular talk show hostess is brutally attacked and left to die, Investigator Bobby Marsh and his lover, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Jacobi, team up in an effort to solve the mystery of her death. But as their investigations draw the pair closer to the truth, their relationship begins to fall apart. The enormous strain has turned a mutual love and loyalty into dark suspicion and betrayal.
When a popular talk show hostess is brutally attacked and left to die, Investigator Bobby Marsh and his lover, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Jacobi, team up in an effort to solve the mystery of her death. But as their investigations draw the pair closer to the truth, their relationship begins to fall apart. The enormous strain has turned a mutual love and loyalty into dark suspicion and betrayal.
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