Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
- usa president
- politics
- biography
- historical drama
- 1960s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bryan Cranston
Lyndon B. Johnson
Anthony Mackie
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Melissa Leo
Lady Bird Johnson
Frank Langella
Sen. Richard Russell
- Bradley Whitford — Hubert Humphrey
- Stephen Root — J. Edgar Hoover
- Todd Weeks — Walter Jenkins
- Ray Wise — Senator Everett Dirksen
- Ken Jenkins — Howard W. Smith
- Dohn Norwood — Ralph Abernathy
- Mo McRae — Stokely Carmichael
- Marque Richardson — Bob Moses
- Aisha Hinds — Fannie Lou Hamer
- Joe Morton — Roy Wilkins
- Eric Pumphrey — David Dennis
- Directed
- Jay Roach
- Written
- Robert Schenkkan
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 319 ratings
- Studio
- Moonshot Entertainment, Amblin Entertainment, Tale Told Productions, Everyman Pictures
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