Rated or Dated: Witness (1985)

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis and a very young Lukas Haas star in Peter Weir’s understated action movie, in which a young Amish boy witnesses the murder of a police officer and only one man can solve the crime. Ford, it’s Harrison Ford. But what do Jen and Mick make of a less swaggering hero? Should Kelly McGillis have got her tits out? What does the film (maybe) say about gun control? And why can’t Jen recognise people in films? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.3	Hello, welcome to rated or dated Jen here doing the intro, which is unusual because we are without a Hannah Dunleavy today, but I am joined by this week's picker Mickey Noonan. Hello, Mickey.
1:28.4	Hi, hi everyone. Imagine Jen if it was you, rating or dating a film on your own.
1:33.8	Just by myself, imagine what I'd pick if it was just me to consider.
1:35.8	Doesn't really bear thinking about, does it? I can't. Don't upset me this early on in the podcast.
1:38.6	So, Mick, can you please tell us which film did we watch this week that had me searching, not for the first time in my life, for Jean-Michel Jarre?
1:49.0	You love a bit of Jean-Michel Jarre, don't you?
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