Jan Rubeš, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone, and Viggo Mortensen appear in supporting roles. After accepting an invitation to a barn raising for a newly married couple, Book gains Hochleitner's respect. They submitted the revised screenplay in less than six weeks, and Feldman delivered it to Fox. Too often, however, this fragile romance is crushed by a thoroughly absurd shoot-em-up, like ketchup poured over a delicate Pennsylvania Dutch dinner. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Witness (1985) near you. The next day, Schaeffer, McFee and Ferguson arrive at the Lapp farm, taking Rachel and Eli hostage as a way of luring Book and Samuel out. Una volta scoperto che gli esecutori del delitto sono agenti della polizia, la famiglia e l'uomo di legge incaricato di proteggerli, il detective John Book, si trovano in pericolo e devono scappare. ... Trama. It was imperative that filming started immediately, because a Directors Guild of America strike was looming on the horizon. Grazie a questa interpretazione, Harrison Ford ottenne la sua unica candidatura all'Oscar come miglior attore protagonista. È il primo film girato negli Stati Uniti da Peter Weir. Witness - Il testimone è un film del 1985 diretto da Peter Weir. The fight between the bullies and the strange "Amish" man is reported to the local police and they inform Schaeffer, who had previously contacted the sheriff in his efforts to locate Book, Rachel and Samuel. [15] A statement released by a law firm associated with the Amish claimed that their portrayal in the movie was not accurate. Certain the attachment of a major star would change Wizan's mind, Feldman approached him once again, but Wizan insisted that as much as the studio liked Ford, they still weren't interested in making a "rural movie. Only then is it a thriller—one that Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to make... We have lately been getting so many pallid, bloodless little movies—mostly recycled teenage exploitation films made by ambitious young stylists without a thought in their heads—that Witness arrives like a fresh new day. Resta aggiornato, seguici su Google News andando su questa pagina e cliccando il tasto segui. "[10], Halliwell's Film Guide chose Witness as one of only two films from 1985 to receive a four star review, describing it as "one of those lucky movies which works out well on all counts and shows that there are still craftsmen lurking in Hollywood. The Amish farmers were present as the third side in perhaps its most elemental form, seemingly doing nothing, but in fact playing the critical role of Witness. Trauma Center is a 2019 American action thriller film directed by Matt Eskandari. La trama di Witness - Il testimone (1985). Il film fu prodotto e distribuito dalla Paramount e venne girato interamente in Pennsylvania, tra Filadelfia, Intercourse e la contea di Lancaster, nella comunità religiosa degli Amish di quel luogo. Commedia, USA, 2012. Rachel's father-in-law Eli reluctantly agrees to shelter him despite his distrust of the outsider. Book is later ambushed and shot in a parking garage by McFee and left badly wounded. Witness - Il testimone (Witness) - Un film di Peter Weir. Exchanging a wave with Hochleitner on the road out, Book departs. It eventually earned $68,706,993 in the United States. Since only Schaeffer knew of Book's suspicions, he realises Schaeffer is also corrupt and tipped off McFee. Originally entitled Called Home (which is the Amish term for death), it ran for 182 pages, the equivalent of three hours of screen time. La trama di Witness – Il testimone è avvincente e può soddisfare gli amanti del genere poliziesco … Con Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Tyler Perry, Danielle Campbell, John Amos, Doris Roberts. He ably juggles the various elements of the story and makes the violence seem even more shocking when it's played out on the fields of Amish denial. [4], Originally the script ended with a scene of Book and Rachel each explaining their feelings for each other to the audience, but Weir felt the scene was unnecessary and decided not to shoot it. The casting director recommended her old friend Alexander Godunov who had never acted before, but she thought his personality would be right, and Weir agreed. Book surmises that McFee sold the chemicals to drug dealers, and that the murdered detective had been investigating the theft. When 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. Altri film dello stesso regista: One, Two, Three, Sunset Boulevard. "E' un film che ha dato fama internazionale al regista di origine australiana, già autore di opere pregevoli come "Picnic a hanging rock", "Le macchine che distrussero Parigi" e "Gli anni spezzati"". His relationship with the Amish community deepens as they learn he is skilled at carpentry and seems like a decent, hard-working man. Con Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Danny Glover, Viggo Mortensen, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer. Jan Rubeš, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone, and Viggo Mortensen appear in supporting roles. [2], Box office / business for Witness - Il testimone, Traduzione italiana di un articolo sulla genesi del film a partire dalla scrittura della sceneggiatura, Master & Commander - Sfida ai confini del mare, https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Witness_-_Il_testimone&oldid=118531171, Voci non biografiche con codici di controllo di autorità, licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo. [3], Lynne Littman had originally been in talks to direct the film, and even though she ultimately did not, she recommended Lukas Haas for the part of Samuel because she had recently worked with him on her film Testament. Il 1º marzo 2017, la rete USA ha cancellato lo show dopo una sola stagione. One follows Witness as if touring one's old hometown, guided by an outsider who refuses to believe that one knows the territory better than he does. La serie ha vinto il premio come Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series al 28° GLAAD Media Awards. The two lunk heads clog around the entire film in moronic fashion. [6], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars, calling it: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, [F]irst of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. The barn raising scene was only a short paragraph in the script, but Weir thought it was important to highlight that aspect of Amish community life. Halfway through filming, the title was changed from Called Home to Witness at the behest of Paramount's marketing department, which felt the original title posed too much of a promotional challenge. "[9], Time Out New York observed, "Powerful, assured, full of beautiful imagery and thankfully devoid of easy moralising, it also offers a performance of surprising skill and sensitivity from Ford. Samuel Lap (Lukas Haas) è un bambino di una comunità Amish unico testimone di un omicidio. Six years earlier, Harrison Ford had also starred in The Frisco Kid, which has a scene in which an Orthodox Jewish man mistakenly assumes that a group of Amish men are fellow Orthodox Jews. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, which takes them into Philadelphia. Although Samuel is unable to identify the perpetrator from mugshots or a line-up, he later sees a newspaper clipping in a trophy case of narcotics officer James McFee receiving an award and points him out to Book. John Badham dismissed it as "just another cop movie", and others Feldman approached either were committed to other projects or had no interest. "[11], Radio Times called the film "partly a love story and partly a thriller, but mainly a study of cultural collision – it's as if the world of Dirty Harry had suddenly stumbled into a canvas by Brueghel." Il film vinse 2 premi Oscar su 8 candidature nel 1986. Book orders Samuel to run to Hochleitner's home for safety, tricks Ferguson into the corn silo and suffocates him under tons of corn, then uses Ferguson's shotgun to kill McFee. They should have added 10 more mins to the film to give it more background/depth and it could have been a great movie… Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that other people make for us. Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir[2] crime drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. The film stars Bruce Willis and Nicky Whelan. Directed by Peter Weir. Trama Poteva essere un pomeriggio come tanti per Philip e Lukas, ma il destino gioca loro un brutto scherzo. Witness comes billed as a thriller, but it's so much more than a thriller that I wish they hadn't even used the word "murder" in the ads. È rimasto alla seconda posizione per tre settimane e, infine, salì in testa alla classifica nella sua quinta settimana di distribuzione, guadagnando oltre 65 milioni di dollari negli Stati Uniti. The constructs of testimony and witness have been central to the field of literary trauma studies, an area of scholarship that seeks to understand the presence and role of trauma in literature, film, and significant cultural-historical events (e.g., Eng & Kazanjian, 2003; Hartman, The role of Rachel was the most difficult to cast, and after Weir grew frustrated with the auditions he'd seen, he asked the casting director to look for actors in Italy because he thought they would be more "womanly." Witness (1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Regia: ... Buon film d'azione, un thriller diverso che supera i limiti del genere grazie all'ambientazione e alla vertigine del tempo: è un viaggio nel passato, un confronto tra due modi di vivere. Witness - Il testimone (Witness) è un film del 1985 diretto da Peter Weir. Witness (starring Harrison Ford) has a scene in which an Amish boy mistakenly assumes that an Orthodox Jewish man is Amish. Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that other people make for us. Book insists that going to a hospital would allow the corrupt police officers to find him and put Samuel in danger. The studio executives were concerned that the audience would not understand the conclusion and tried to convince him otherwise, but Weir insisted that the characters' emotions could be expressed only with visuals. In 1984, an Amish community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania attends the funeral of Jacob Lapp, who leaves behind his young wife Rachel and eight-year-old son Samuel. Weir drew attention to the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, which were used as inspiration for the lighting and composition of the film, especially in the scenes where John Book is recovering from a gunshot wound in Rachel's house. "[5] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". While waiting for a connecting train, Samuel goes into the men's room and witnesses the brutal murder of an undercover police officer, but manages to evade detection by hiding in the stalls. It is a movie about adults whose lives have dignity and whose choices matter to them. Genere Drammatico - USA , 1985 , durata 112 minuti. [4], During the weeks before filming, Ford spent time with the homicide department of the Philadelphia Police Department, researching the important details of working as a homicide detective. Presentato fuori concorso al 38º Festival di Cannes,[1] il film è uscito in 876 sale negli Stati Uniti l'8 febbraio 1985 e ha incassato 4 539 990$ nel suo weekend di apertura, posizionandosi al secondo posto dietro Beverly Hills Cop. [3], Feldman sent the screenplay to Harrison Ford's agent Phil Gersh, who contacted the producer four days later and advised him his client was willing to commit to the film. Witness - Il Testimone è un film di genere Drammatico . During his convalescence, Book dresses in Jacob Lapp's clothing in order to avoid drawing attention to himself. With Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer. It's pretty to look at and it contains a number of good performances, but there is something exhausting about its neat balancing of opposing manners and values... One might be made to care about all this if the direction by the talented Australian film maker, Peter Weir... were less perfunctory and if the screenplay... did not seem so strangely familiar. And it is also one hell of a thriller.[7]. "[12], The film was screened out of competition at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. There's not a character, an event or a plot twist that one hasn't anticipated long before its arrival, which gives one the feeling of waiting around for people who are always late. Book expresses his suspicions to Chief of Police Paul Schaeffer, who advises Book to keep the case secret so they can work out how to proceed. A proteggerli, sin nel cuore della comunità è inviato John Book (Harrison Ford) un giovane tenete della polizia che si innamorerà della madre di Samuel. The Witness is a non-profit, faith-based media organization that engages issues of religion, race, justice, and culture from a biblical perspective. [1], Negotiation expert William Ury summarised the film's climactic scene in a chapter titled "The Witness" in his 1999 book Getting to Peace (later republished with the alternative title The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop) and used the scene as a symbol of the power of ordinary citizens to resolve conflicts and stop violence.[14]. Samuel, hearing the gunshots, heads back to the farm. Sfuggito a un sicario, Book si rifugia presso la comunità Amish, dove, assieme a Samuel e a sua madre, dovrà affrontare la vendetta dei suoi stessi superiori, che li vogliono morti per cancellare le tracce del crimine compiuto. Harrison Ford è sensazionale nel ruolo di Book, poliziotto che si troverà invischiato fino al collo nel mondo non-violento della comunità Amish della Pennsylvania. Menu. Feldman's first choice of director was Peter Weir, but he was involved in pre-production work for The Mosquito Coast and passed on the project. Battle attempts to portray a charismatic villain, but can't due to the fact that he has to lower his acting ability to balance out Ortiz. As they were reviewing audition tapes from Italy, Kelly McGillis came to audition, and the moment she put on the bonnet and spoke a few lines, Weir knew she was the one. Principal photography was completed three days before the scheduled DGA strike, which ultimately failed to materialise. Viggo Mortensen was cast because Weir thought he had the right face for the part of an Amish man. Trama e trailer del film in onda lunedì 11 gennaio. The emotional impact comes from the gentle way the film reveals Kitty Genovese as a loving, vibrant person, and not as a symbol." Unfortunately this movie is only 5/10 bc it has a weak storyline (dirty cops shoot good cops with their police gun) so the bad guys were a bit too dumb. Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas. Adirai.it è stato selezionato da Google News come Fonte di Notizie Autorevole grazie alla qualità dei contenuti prodotti quotidianamente. A similar concern was voiced within the movie itself, where Rachel tells a recovering Book that tourists often consider her fellow Amish something to stare at, with some even being so rude as to trespass on their private property. This scene from the popular movie Witness captures the power of ordinary community members to contain violence. They shot the scene in a day and did, in fact, build a barn, albeit with the aid of cranes off-camera. TRAMA WITNESS - IL TESTIMONE. 2 behind Beverly Hills Cop. In San Juan, Puerto Rico ... Madison wakes up in a hospital and as a witness of one of their vicious crimes, she’s placed under the protection of respected police lieutenant Steve Wakes (Bruce Willis). Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which was his first American film. Book investigates and finds out that McFee was previously responsible for a seizure of expensive chemicals used to make black-market amphetamines, but the evidence has now disappeared. Book slowly recovers in their care and begins to develop feelings for Rachel, who likewise is drawn to him. Book goes into town with Eli to use a payphone, where he learns that Carter has been killed. Grazie a questa interpretazione, Harrison Ford ottenne la sua unica candidatura all' Oscar come miglior attore protagonista . Il film Witness - Il testimone in streaming legale completo è disponibile in italiano su Amazon Prime Video, Chili, Google Play, iTunes, PlayStation Store. Filming began on 24 February 2014. The National Committee For Amish Religious Freedom called for a boycott of the movie soon after its release, citing fears that these communities were being "overrun by tourists" as a result of the popularity of the movie, and worried that "the crowding, souvenir-hunting, photographing and trespassing on Amish farmsteads will increase." Only then is it a thriller - one that Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to make. Like the Amish, we are all potential Witnesses. This is, first of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay presented by the Mystery Writers of America. Weir and cinematographer John Seale went on a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which was running an exhibition of 17th century Dutch Masters. The Bad...the corrupt cops played by Battle and Ortiz. He deduces that Schaeffer and McFee murdered Carter after discovering his role in the case to get closer to Book, with the aid of a third corrupt officer, Detective Sergeant Leon Ferguson.

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