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Released
1989 · FILM

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Deaf shopkeeper David and blind street hustler Wally must prove their innocence and bring down a trio of murderous thieves while evading relentless police and the killers themselves.

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

Directed by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
102 min
ComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A murder occurs in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who does not hear the gunshot. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but manage to escape and form an unlikely partnership. As they are pursued by both the police and the original killers, the question remains whether the two can work together to outwit their pursuers.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 43+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert C JonesShot by Victor J KemperScored by Stewart CopelandDesigned by Robert Gundlach

Box Office

1989 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$46.9M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$46.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $7.1M 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.5M20% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,677 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Glücksjägerde
  • No me chilles, que no te veoes
  • Pas nous, pas nousfr
  • Non guardarmi: non ti sentoit

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