Rotten
The story gets more and more strained before it's resolved.
Variety Staff, Variety
Eyewitness
Only the best murder cases make the six o'clock news.
1981 · 1h 43m · R
Thriller
Directed by
Peter Yates
Overview
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in the office building, and Tony suspects that Daryll may have insight into the crime, a notion that he furthers to stay close to her. However, when those behind the killing begin to think that he really knows something, they target the pair to keep their secrets hidden.
Director and cast
- Peter Yates Director
- William Hurt as Daryll Deever
- Sigourney Weaver as Tony Sokolow
- Christopher Plummer as Joseph
- James Woods as Aldo Mercer
- Irene Worth as Mrs. Sokolow
- Kenneth McMillan as Mr. Deever
- Pamela Reed as Linda Mercer
- Albert Paulsen as Mr. Sokolow
- Steven Hill as Lieutenant Jacobs
- Morgan Freeman as Lieutenant Black
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Every scene develops characters. And they're developed in such offbeat fidelity to the way people do behave that we get all the more involved in the mystery, just because, for once, we halfway believe it could really be happening.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A thoroughly delightful but far from plausible mystery melodrama that operates exclusively on high spirits and a no-nonsense intelligence that is never sidetracked by coherence.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
An enjoyable entertainment whose box-office failure was thoroughly undeserved.
Time Out
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