Samuel Lap is a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder in Philadelphia while traveling with his mother Rachel. A good cop named John Book must go with them into hiding when the killers come after them. All three retreat to Amish country and Book has to adjust to the new life style, and his feelings for the boy's mother. Of course the killers are still on their trail.


Books with substantial mentioning of Witness

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1986, A Survey of the Films of 1985
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986
pp. 421-425 info

Articles with substantial mentioning of Witness

Ian Nathan, The Wizard of Oz, The Films of Peter Weir, in: Empire, nr. 258 (December), 2010 pp. 134-140



Year: 1985
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0090329
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