Witness - Police corruption in the Amish Neighborhood !!

Video Source: Amazon Prime


The movie is unusual and interesting because it is set in the Amish village in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Otherwise, it would be like scores of other crime movies!! [I have mentioned in the Personnel Messages blog that we occasionally drove thru the narrow road shown in the movie while we lived in or near Pennsylvania!!]

A corrupt police officer and his friends surreptitiously sell millions worth of drugs which were captured by the police from drug smugglers. A very young 6 or 7 years old Amish boy witnesses them shoot another police officer but manages to escape their attention. His mom and him are on the Amtrak train station (Philadelphia ?) on the way to visit a relative when this happens. The young boy tells his mom who informs the police about the incident. He is later able to identify one of the killers while waiting in the police station with our hero police officer (Harrison Ford). Harrison Ford is injured in a police shootout while hiding in the Amish village with the boy witness. But how can a hero die ? He recovers gradually as the Amish treat him with their homemade remedies but only after romancing the boy's mother in the Amish village!! The cruel police officers are finally killed/caught towards the end.

As I have mentioned above, the movie excels because of the time spent in the Amish village. All the main characters including the hero, heroine and the boy act well in the movie as do the Amish actors.