Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
- new york city
- vietnam
- drug smuggling
- society
- gangster
- drug trafficking
- heroin
- junkie
- ghetto
- nightclub
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Denzel Washington
Frank Lucas
Russell Crowe
Richie Roberts
Josh Brolin
Detective Trupo
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Huey Lucas
- Cuba Gooding Jr. — Nicky Barnes
- Lymari Nadal — Eva
- Ted Levine — Lou Toback
- Armand Assante — Dominic Cattano
- John Ortiz — Javier J. Rivera
- John Hawkes — Freddie Spearman
- RZA — Moses Jones
- Yul Vazquez — Alfonso Abruzzo
- Ruby Dee — Mama Lucas
- Idris Elba — Tango
- Carla Gugino — Laurie Roberts
- Directed
- Ridley Scott
- Written
- Steven Zaillian
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 6,204 ratings
- Studio
- Film Rites, Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free 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.
