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Eyewitness

Smitten with TV reporter Tony Sokolow (Sigourney Weaver), unassuming janitor Daryll Deever (William Hurt) intimates that he knows more than he's telling when the journalist shows up at his workplace to cover a murder. Her interest piqued, Tony pursues him to get the scoop, and they join forces (in more ways than one) to investigate the killing. Meanwhile, they're in the culprits' crosshairs in this atmospheric thriller from director Peter Yates.
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Netflix Rating: 3.1
Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics

The story gets more and more strained before it's resolved. full review

Variety Staff, Variety

Every scene develops characters. And they're developed in such offbeat fidelity to the way people do behave that we get all the more involved in the mystery, just because, for once, we halfway believe it could really be happening. full review

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A thoroughly delightful but far from plausible mystery melodrama that operates exclusively on high spirits and a no-nonsense intelligence that is never sidetracked by coherence. full review

Vincent Canby, New York Times
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  • Release Year: 1981
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Runtime: 102 min
  • Available From: Nov 02, 2012
  • Available Until: Dec 31, 2099
  • Remaining: 31631 days left
  • Queued by: 100 people
Directed By
Peter Yates
Cast
William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Irene Worth, Kenneth McMillan, Pamela Reed, Albert Paulsen, Steven Hill, Morgan Freeman
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