#Movie review starcrossed 1985 movie#

Wallace won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay presented by the Mystery Writers of America. It was also nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, winning one for Maurice Jarre's score, and six Golden Globe Awards. At the 58th Academy Awards, it earned eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Ford, winning Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. The film went on to become a sleeper hit, grossing over $116 million worldwide. The film focuses on a police detective protecting an Amish woman and her young son, who becomes a target after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia train station.ДЇilmed in 1984, Witness was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures in the winter of 1985. From its uproarious, Rube Goldberg-esque opening sight gag to its race-against-time finale, Back to the Future remains a trip worth returning to.Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas, with Jan RubeЕЎ, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer, Alexander Godunov, Patti LuPone, and Viggo Mortensen in supporting roles. Editors Arthur Schmidt and Harry Keramidas maintain a lightning pace throughout that rarely sacrifices plot and character for speed.

Paull and crisply captured by cinematographer Dean Cundey, both of whom collaborated with Zemeckis on last yearвЂ™s Romancing the Stone. The filmвЂ™s period trappings are rendered with Life-magazine authenticity by production designer Lawrence G.

#Movie review starcrossed 1985 movie#

But itвЂ™s Christopher Lloyd who walks away with the movie in a gloriously uncontrolled, fright-wigged performance that redefines the mad scientist for modern movie audiences. Wilson suitably menacing as a town bully who gets a gratifying comeuppance. As his soon-to-be mom, Thompson walks a hilarious line between diffidence and lust, and Crispin Glover is nerdism personified as her reluctant beau, with Thomas F. But thereвЂ™s simply too much fun on hand to be particularly spoiled.ДЄdding to the pleasure is an attractive, energetic young cast, led by the appealing Fox, easily one of the more intelligent-looking young actors to cross a screen recently. There are occasional lapses in the general lightheartednessВ - the Libyan terrorists who set the main plot in motion are hardly a laughing matter these days. Spielberg gets executive producer credit, but itвЂ™s ZemeckisвЂ™ movie all the way. The confusion makes for plenty of action (notably one dizzying sequence where Fox вЂњinventsвЂќ a skateboard and uses it to flee from a gang of вЂ™50s toughs), but this is at heart a gentler, less noisy endeavor than most Spielberg enterprises, brimming with fond nostalgia and people with the same sort of goofy supporting characters as past, more underrated ZemeckisВ efforts like Used Cars. ThereвЂ™s even shades of an Oedipal ItвЂ™s a Wonderful Life as the hero gamely fends off advances from his own future mother (delicately played by Lea Thompson) in a frantic attempt to ensure that his tamperings with the past have little bearing on his immediate future. ItвЂ™s every kidвЂ™s fantasy come true, and Zemeckis exploits its possibilities with delicious abandon, deriving considerable humor from the situationвЂ™s unseen generation gap.

When the good doctor soups up a DeLorean into a plutonium-powered time-mobile, the kid embarks on the ride of his lifeВ - back into 1955, where he unexpectedly encounters his own now-adolescent parents.

Fox, who replaced original lead Eric Stoltz midway through production) who takes refuge from his oddball domestic world - a sort of suburban Addams FamilyВ - in the company of a certifiably nutty professor (Christopher Lloyd at his scene-stealing best). The script, by Zemeckis and longtime partner Bob Gale, concerns a Northern California teenager ( Family TiesвЂ Michael J.