--- title: 'Eyewitness (1981)' type: 'film' director: 'Peter Yates' released: '1981-02-13' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Mystery' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/eyewitness-1981' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082353/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Eyewitness (1981) 1981 · 103 min · Mystery, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis Eyewitness is a 1981 American neo-noir thriller film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It stars William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, Morgan Freeman and James Woods. The story involves a television news reporter and a janitor who team up to solve a murder. ## Credits - **Director:** [Peter Yates](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-yates) - **Producer:** [Peter Yates](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-yates) - **Screenplay:** [Steve Tesich](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-tesich) - **Original Music Composer:** [Stanley Silverman](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-silverman) - **Director of Photography:** [Matthew F. Leonetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthew-f-leonetti) - **Editor:** [Cynthia Scheider](https://cinepixo.com/people/cynthia-scheider) ## Cast - [Albert Paulsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-paulsen) - [Kenneth McMillan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-mcmillan) - [Irene Worth](https://cinepixo.com/people/irene-worth) - [Alice Drummond](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-drummond) - [Pamela Reed](https://cinepixo.com/people/pamela-reed) - [Sigourney Weaver](https://cinepixo.com/people/sigourney-weaver) - [Morgan Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/morgan-freeman) - [William Damaged](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-damaged) - [James Woods](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-woods) - [Christopher Plummer](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-plummer) - [Steven Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-hill) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/eyewitness-1981 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1755573); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.