# Eyewitness (1981)

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**Runtime**: 103 min
**Genres**: Thriller
**Directed by**: Peter Yates
**Written by**: Steve Tesich
**Starring**: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Irene Worth, Kenneth McMillan

> *Only the best murder cases make the six o'clock news.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight fluorescent hum of a Manhattan high-rise lobby, winter leaking through the glass doors.

A news van’s red light bounces off linoleum while the janitor mimes dusting, eavesdropping on every code word.

Cops and killers all need the man who sees what cameras missed.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, slow-burn

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