Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 149 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
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
- sniper
- rape
- court
- jurors
- ku klux klan
- mississippi river
- forgiveness
- blackmail
- attempted murder
- trial
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Matthew McConaughey
Jake Brigance
Sandra Bullock
Ellen Roark
Samuel L. Jackson
Carl Lee Hailey
Kevin Spacey
Rufus Buckley
- Ashley Judd — Carla Brigance
- Donald Sutherland — Lucien Wilbanks
- Oliver Platt — Harry Rex Vonner
- Charles S. Dutton — Ozzie Walls
- Brenda Fricker — Ethel Twitty
- Kiefer Sutherland — Freddie Lee Cobb
- Patrick McGoohan — Judge Omar Noose
- Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly — Tonya Hailey
- Tonea Stewart — Gwen Hailey
- John Diehl — Tim Nunley
- Chris Cooper — Dwayne Looney
- Directed
- Joel Schumacher
- Written
- Akiva Goldsman
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 3,076 ratings
- Studio
- Regency Enterprises, Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
