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Eyewitness is a american film of genre Drama directed by Peter Yates released in USA on 13 february 1981 with William Hurt
Eyewitness (1981)
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Add to a movie listEyewitness is a 1981 thriller film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It stars William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer and James Woods. The story involves a television news reporter and a janitor who team up to solve a murder.
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New York janitor Daryll Deever (Hurt) is an avid fan of television news reporter Tony Sokolow (Weaver). A wealthy man suspected of criminal connections is murdered in Daryll's office building and Tony suspects Deever knows something about it.Actors
William Hurt
(Daryll Deever)
Sigourney Weaver
(Tony Sokolow)
Christopher Plummer
(Joseph)
James Woods
(Aldo Mercer)
Morgan Freeman
(Lieutenant Black)
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