See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

MURDER! The blind guy couldn't see it. The deaf guy couldn't hear it. Now they're both wanted for it.

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

Directed by: Arthur Hiller

Written by: Arne Sultan, Earl Barret, Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald

Music by: Stewart Copeland

Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North, Alexandra Neil, John Capodice, Tonya Pinkins, Mary Kay Adams, Lauren Tom

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Released: 1989-05-12

Runtime: 102 minutes

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See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Originally Jim Belushi was to be cast as the deaf man before Wilder was hired.
• Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor wrote the first screenplay of the film and sold it to Columbia Pictures for $200,000 in 1984.
• Principal photography began on August 29, 1988, in New York and New Jersey, with New York City, Pound Ridge, and the Hackensack River marshlands serving as locations.
• The studio agreed and See No Evil, Hear No Evil premiered in May 1989 to mostly negative reviews.

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