The Witness Files |  | Actors: Yancy Butler, David Nerman, Barry Flatman, Matthew Harbour, Alan Fawcett
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 149018
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D14522ED
UPC: 057373145227
EAN: 0057373145227
ASIN: B00004TJM2
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: July 11, 2000
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Product Description
A former actress unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier is forced to testify against a mafia hit man. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Yancy Butler Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R
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Lame, contrived nonsense. Don't waste your time like I did. March 14, 2006
so_many_cds (Tarzana, CA United States)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most movies ask for a suspension of disbelief; this trite piece of nonsense demands that you buy into a plot full of two-dimensional cardboard characters whose actions and dialogue are so full of clichés, magical coincidences, and stereotypes that you can predict everything before it occurs -- when you aren't laughing at how bad it is. After agreeing to assist a crooked D.A. by pretending to be an eyewitness in order to convict a mobster, our heroine finds her life in peril from not only the nasty, evil mobster but also the mean old bad D.A. himself. Her apparently phenomenal talent as a make-up artiste somehow equips her to disguise herself AND to become a great actress who can fool everyone, including detectives and lawyers, AND to hatch an implausible plan to fake her own murder and frame the crooked D.A. for killing her. She tricks a rugged, honest, handsome maverick cop into unknowingly assisting her, but -- darn the luck -- they fall in love. Her "ingenious" scheme depends on various other people improbably doing, saying, and thinking exactly the things that she anticipates, and even placing themselves precisely where she wants them to be at the time she wants them there -- and miraculously, every other human being involved in this ridiculous film does just what she needs them to do. Gosh, it's almost as though it were... oh, I dunno, scripted? I watched this movie on a certain cable movie channel that caters to female viewers, and although I generally do not care for the often-derogatory term "chick flick," this movie is a BAD one.
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