See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Name: See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1989-05-12
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North

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

See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)

Timing: 1:42 (102 min)

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Budget

$18 000 000

Box office

$46 908 987

Website

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/seenoevilhearnoevil

Director

Arthur Hiller

Actors

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

Producer

Marvin Worth, Burtt Harris, Earl Barret, Arne Sultan

Camera operator

Victor J. Kemper

Composer

Stewart Copeland

Artist

Robert Gundlach, Alan Kimmel, Alan Kimmel

Audition

Lynn Stalmaster

Editing

Robert C. Jones
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Short description

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?

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.
While preparing for the role, Richard Pryor visited the Braille Institute in Los Angeles, where he was shown how to realistically play a blind person with a cane, and also observed blind people closely.
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.
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.