Danny Glover has a prominent supporting role in a play directed by Peter Weir.
 It became a major box-office hit and is one of Weir's best-known films to mainstream audiences
Weir's first American film was the successful thriller Witness (1985), the first of two films he made with Harrison Ford, about a boy who sees the murder of an undercover police officer by corrupt coworkers and has to be hidden in his Amish community to protect him

