Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United States
The story
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
- individual
- adolescence
- rap music
- hip-hop
- rhyme battle
- trailer park
- street gang
- ethnic stereotype
- rapper
- ghetto
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Evan Jones — Cheddar Bob
- Omar Benson Miller — Sol George
- De'Angelo Wilson — DJ IZ
- Eugene Byrd — Wink
- Taryn Manning — Janeane
- Larry Hudson — Bouncer
- Proof — Lil'Tic
- Mike Bell — Shorty Mike
- DJ Head — Battle DJ
- Michael Shannon — Greg Buehl
- Chloe Greenfield — Lily
- Directed
- Curtis Hanson
- Written
- Scott Silver
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 7,964 ratings
- Studio
- Mikona Productions, Imagine Entertainment
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.
