Hear No Evil (1993 film)

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Hear No Evil
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Produced by Robert Greenwald
David Matalon
Written by R.M. Badat
Danny Rubin
Kathleen Rowell
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Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography Steven Shaw
Edited by Éva Gárdos
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
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  • March 26, 1993 (1993-03-26)
Running time
97 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $5,679,569

Hear No Evil is a 1993 American thriller film directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Marlee Matlin, D. B. Sweeney, and Martin Sheen. It was released by 20th Century Fox on March 26, 1993. Matlin and Sheen would later co-star in The West Wing.

Plot

Jillian Shanahan, a hearing-impaired women, and an athletic trainer, is unaware that her client Mickey O'Malley, has hidden a stolen rare coin in her pager. After Mickey gets arrested at Jillian's apartment by Lt. Brock, a corrupt cop, he gets interrogated by him in the back of a police car under the bridge. After that, he returns to Jillian's apartment, only to find Jillian is not there. Later he goes to a diner owned by his friend Ben Kendall and tries to call Jillian, but does not get a response. Soon after, he leaves the diner in Ben's car. He is killed when the car gets blown up on the bridge, and the car lands in the river below. Ben begins to suspect that Lt. Brock is behind Mickey's death as well as series of terrifying threats that Jillian begins to receive. After that, Jillian and Ben are being stalked by a killer who also wants the coin.

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on May 4, 1992. Filming took place in and around Portland, Oregon where the film is set. Other locations in Portland including the Hawthorne Bridge, Mount Tabor Park, the Union Station, the Willamette River and at the Timberline Lodge at Mount Hood, Oregon where the final climax of the film is shot. Production officially wrapped on June 26, 1992.

Release

Hear No Evil was released on March 26, 1993 in 1,430 theaters. It ranked at #6 at the box-office, making $2.6 million in its opening weekend. It went on to gross $5.6 million in its theatrical run.

Reception

The film received negative reviews from film critics and has a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Home video

Hear No Evil was released on Video on August 11, 1993 and on DVD on September 7, 2004.

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