Witness (1985 film)

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Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Weir, from a screenplay by Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley. It stars Harrison Ford as a police detective protecting an Amish woman (Kelly McGillis) and her son (Lukas Haas), who becomes a target after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia railroad station. The film was based on scripts that Wallace and Kelley had written for the Western television series How the West Was Won and Gunsmoke years prior. Filming took place in Lancaster County and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Due to the Amish prescription against being photographed, most of the shooting took place against the backdrop of the local Mennonite community instead. The cast also features Josef Sommer, Jan Rubeš, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover, Patti LuPone, and Viggo Mortensen in his film debut. Witness was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on February 8, 1985. It received positive reviews upon release and became a sleeper hit, grossing...

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