Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer
A young Amish boy, visiting Philadelphia with his widowed mother, witnesses a murder. When the detective on the case discovers a police cover up, he realizes his, the boy's and the mother's lives are ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 29, 1999
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September 24, 2009A great film by Peter Weir, with a good cast. Breaks down stereotype of the Amish community.
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September 18, 2008More a movie about the Amish than the cop drama that you'd first expect. As such it's a leisurely and interesting comparison of 80s city life and that of the rural Amish.
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April 12, 2008A young Amish boy and his mother witness a murder. Harrison is a cop who hides out in the Amish community to protect them. Good performances.
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April 6, 2008An Amish boy witnesses a murder of a cop in a Bathroom on his way to Baltimore with his mother. After fingering a cop for the murder, Detective John Book must hide out among the Amish and protect the boy and his mother for the dirty cops trying to silence him. After retreating to...( read more)
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November 16, 2009This is a really wonderful movie. A great take on Amish life as well as on detective work and acceptance. Peter Weir is a great director and there's some really great acting from Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis as well.
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October 22, 2009Listen, lady, you take my picture and I'm going to rip off your brassiere and strangle you with it." was one of my favourite scene from Ford in this movie.
To me, this was more of a love story, a forbidden romance than a cop drama as the story unfolds. Ford was fine in Raiders a...( read more) -
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October 4, 2009All the perfect elements a film should have. Story, acting, set. The side themes that cause us to examine and reevaluate the way we live are what I like most. Some great comedy moments too. Harrison Ford is at his best and Kelly McGillis, a very underrated actress.
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July 10, 2008Probably Ford's best non-Indy, non-Han role. Just a great thriller with a unique setting (an Amish farmstead), good characters and believably futile love affair.
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