Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
- infidelity
- based on novel or book
- blackmail
- porn actor
- murder
- los angeles
- california
- neo-noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Robert Trebor — Leo Franks
- Lonny Chapman — Jim O'Boyle
- Kelly Preston — Cini
- Doug McClure — Mark Arveson
- Clarence Williams III — Bobby Shy
- Alex Henteloff — Dan Lowenthal
- Michelle Walker — Counter Girl
- Philip Bartko — Test Site Worker
- Tom Byron — Party Goer
- Herschel Savage — Party Goer
- Ron Jeremy — Party Goer
- Directed
- John Frankenheimer
- Written
- John Steppling, Elmore Leonard
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 157 ratings
- Studio
- The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
