Daryll Deever
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- Eyewitness is a solid dramatic thriller with engaging characters, red herrings, and a pair of effective action sequences — a shootout and a brief motorcycle/car chase — and while it doesn’t have the flashiness of many of its contemporaries it’s worth seeking out for fans of great actors and characters who are slightly more thought-provoking than normal.
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A final shoot-out in a midtown riding stable has a touch of Hitchcock to it; the old master always loved to mix violence with absolutely inappropriate settings. But what makes this movie so entertaining is the way Yates and Tesich and their characters play against our expectations.
Eyewitness (released in the UK as The Janitor) is a 1981 American neo-noir [4] thriller film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It stars William Hurt , Sigourney Weaver , Christopher Plummer , and James Woods .
Eyewitness: Directed by Peter Yates. With William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods. A janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Yates
Jun 5, 2017 · Eyewitness is a solid dramatic thriller with engaging characters, red herrings, and a pair of effective action sequences — a shootout and a brief motorcycle/car chase — and while it doesn’t ...
Jan 21, 2013 · Daryl (William Hurt) is a nighttime janitor at a large Manhattan office building. He spends his otherwise lonely existence obsessing over a local news reporter Tony Sokolow (Sigourney Weaver) and records every news broadcast she is in and watches them each night when he gets home.
Fresh off the success of Breaking Away (1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a thriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver.
Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.
