Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
- press
- bad cop
The bill
Samuel L. Jackson
Andrew Sterling
Nicolas Cage
Amos Odell
Michael Lerner
Phil Gillman
Margaret Colin
Judy Gillman
- Dabney Coleman — Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
- Brad Dourif — Officer Donnie Donaldson
- Chelcie Ross — Deputy Earl
- Jordan Lund — Deputy Riley
- I.M. Hobson — Waldo Lake
- Jeff Blumenkrantz — Ernie
- Todd Weeks — Stan
- Jodi Long — Wendy Wong
- Michael Burgess — Black Reporter
- Leonor Anthony — Hispanic Reporter
- Walter Raymond — Anchorman
- Directed
- E. Max Frye
- Written
- E. Max Frye
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 192 ratings
- Studio
- New Line Cinema, Castle Rock 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.
