1989 · comedy · crime
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Directed by Arthur Hiller1h 42m1989
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?
Our read: See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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