Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
- prison riot
- attica
- dreary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kyle MacLachlan
Michael Smith
Samuel L. Jackson
Jamaal
Clarence Williams III
Chaka
Frederic Forrest
Weisbad
- Harry Dean Stanton — Hal
- Anne Heche — Sharon Smith
- Danny Trejo — Luis
- Philip Bosco — Oswald
- Tom Bower — Ed
- Carmen Argenziano — Mancusi
- Peter Murnik — Jess
- Steve Harris — Cecil
- David Ackroyd — William Kuntsler
- Denis Forest — Denny
- Mark Cabus — Ken
- Directed
- John Frankenheimer
- Written
- Ron Hutchinson
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 96 ratings
- Studio
- HBO Films, HBO
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.
