Synopsis
Eyewitness (1981) is a crime thriller from director Peter Yates that you can watch online on iFILM. Daryll Deever, played by William Hurt, mops floors in a Manhattan office tower and has long had a quiet crush on TV reporter Tony Sokolow (Sigourney Weaver), whom he knows only from the screen. Their paths cross after a murder upstairs.
To keep Tony close and finally meet her, Daryll lets her believe he knows more about the killing than he's saying. The bluff works — and then it backfires. The real killers take his hint at face value and decide the talkative janitor and the reporter both need to disappear.
This is a small-scale thriller carried by its cast: alongside Hurt and Weaver are Christopher Plummer, James Woods, and a young Morgan Freeman in a brief turn. Yates films early-eighties New York at an unhurried pace, betting on character and awkward attraction rather than chases. A quiet find for fans of old-school Hollywood suspense. Stream Eyewitness (1981) online on iFILM.
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