See No Evil, Hear No Evil
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Short description
A deaf man and a blind man become the only witnesses to a killing. Dave Lyons runs a shop and does not hear the gunshot; Wally Karue, who is blind, hears it but sees nothing. The police treat them as suspects, while the people responsible for the crime want them silenced. The two go on the run together and have to rely on each other to survive.
Arthur Hiller directed the film, the fourteenth of the seventeen features he made in chronological order, between Outrageous Fortune and Taking Care of Business. Richard Pryor plays Wally Karue and Gene Wilder plays Dave Lyons; Wilder also worked on the screenplay with Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald, and Marvin Worth produced. The cast includes Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North and Alexandra Neil, with thirty-three credited performers and 116 credited crew members. The film runs 102 minutes.
Released in May 1989, the comedy cost about 18 million dollars and took in roughly 47 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.8 out of 10 from around 63,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 out of 10 from about 1,122 votes, indicating a generally favourable audience response. Critics were less convinced, giving it 4.1 out of 10 across 31 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- While preparing for the role, Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman, 1933-2016) visited a special association for people with hearing impairments in New York. There he met speech therapist Karen Webb, who later became his 4th wife.
- Gene Wilder refused to star in the film twice, but his agent eventually persuaded him to meet with the bosses of TriStar Pictures, who asked him to rewrite the script with his participation and that of Richard Pryor (1940-2005). Gene Wilder feared the film would be a mockery of people with disabilities, but he met with them during the preparation for the role and learned that people with disabilities also have a sense of humor. In addition, he began receiving letters from people with disabilities saying how great it would be to make a film where people with disabilities are the main characters, not secondary ones.
- Gene Wilder twice refused to star in the film, but his agent eventually persuaded him to meet with producers at TriStar Pictures, who asked him to rewrite the script with him and Richard Pryor. Wilder feared the film would mock people with disabilities, but he began receiving letters from such people about how great it would be to make a film where people with disabilities were the main characters.
- While preparing for the role, Gene Wilder visited an association for people with hearing impairments in New York. There, he met speech therapist Karen Webb, who later became his fourth wife.
- Preparing for his role, Richard Pryor visited the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, where he was shown how to authentically portray a blind person using a cane, and where he carefully observed blind individuals.
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