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Witness (1985)

Directed by Peter Weir

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 112 minutes

Actors

Harrison Ford | Kelly McGillis | Josef Sommer | Lukas Haas | Jan Rubeš | Alexander Godunov | Danny Glover | Brent Jennings | Patti LuPone | Angus MacInnes | Frederick Rolf | Viggo Mortensen | John Garson | Beverly May | Ed Crowley | Timothy Carhart | Sylvia Kauders | Marian Swan | Maria Bradley | Rozwill Young | Paul S. Nuss | Emily Tracy | Fred Steinharter | John D. King | Paul Goss | Annemarie Vallerio | Bruce E. Camburn | William Francis | Tom Kennedy | Ardyth Kaiser | Thomas Quinn | Eugene Dooley | Victoria Scott D'Angelo | Richard Chaves | Tim Moyer | Nino Del Buono | James Frank Clark | Joseph Kelly | Norman Carter | Craig Clement | Robert Earl Jones | Michael Levering | Cara Giallanza | Anthony Dean Rubes | Bernie Styles | Blossom Terry | Jennifer Mancuso