Circumstance as they are, Booker fears for the boy’s life and goes undercover in the Amish community to protect him while the investigation continues. Assigned to the case is Detective John Book ( Ford), who is stunned when the boy, while in the station, makes a certain revelation that has profound effect. At a stop in Philadelphia, making a connection, the boy heads to the restroom and while there, happens to secretly witnesses a murder. Young, recently widowed Amish mother Rachel Lapp ( Kelly McGillis) and her young son Samuel ( Lukas Haas) travel by train through Pennsylvania, headed to see Rachel’s sister.
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And really, aside from his great work, the movie itself is a terrific story, well-directed and acted with a supporting cast that make this still one of the best movies about, well, the Amish, ever made, but also cop thrillers in general. Ford deserves all the credit he gets, delivering a smart, impactful performance that relies on the actor’s considerable charms and intensity in all new ways, his interpretation on screen much more reserved that what we’d, at that time, came to expect. Amid these huge blockbusters though, he snuck in a few not-so-iconicy titles that offered him a chance to spread his wings a bit in terms of diverse characters, such as the now beloved Rick Deckard from Blade Runner, however it was with Peter Weir‘s Witness where he finally earned some real acting cred, earning himself his only Academy Award acting nomination so far … though I smell me a Governors Award coming soon.Įither way, Witness had film critics slathering all kinds of love upon and it did pretty darned well at the box office, despite no Wookies and and a decided lack of a fedora, though there’s plenty of straw hats. But the corrupt cops Book has exposed are determined to keep their dirty work a secret, and they come looking for Book & Samuel to silence them for good.Witness is a 1985 thriller about a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.īy the middle of the 1980s Harrison Ford was one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, being part of both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises, making him arguably the most successful action star of his time … and he was only getting started. Book determines that the best way to avoid detection is to blend in with the Amish community, which he does, working with them on their farms and helping with building a new barn. Shortly after Book tells his boss this information, McFee comes after Book and wounds him in a shootout. Book soon discovers that McFee was involved in the theft of something called P2P, an ingredient used in the making of methamphetamine. It isn't long before the young boy fingers Philadelphia narcotics officer McFee as the murderer. John Book who informs them that the murdered man was a police officer.
The detective assigned to the homicide case is Det. While in a washroom at the train station, Samuel sees two men savagely murder a third. Young Amish widow Rachel Lapp is taking her young son Samuel to Philadelphia for the first time.
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