Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
- new york city
- amnesia
- heart
- southern usa
- voodoo
- detective
- drug addiction
- new orleans
- louisiana
- investigation
- neurosis
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mickey Rourke
Harry Angel
Robert De Niro
Louis Cyphre
Lisa Bonet
Epiphany Proudfoot
Charlotte Rampling
Margaret Krusemark
- Stocker Fontelieu — Ethan Krusemark
- Brownie McGhee — Toots Sweet
- Michael Higgins — Doctor Fowler
- Elizabeth Whitcraft — Connie
- Eliott Keener — Sterne
- Charles Gordone — Spider Simpson
- Dann Florek — Winesnap
- Kathleen Wilhoite — Nurse
- George Buck — Izzy
- Judith Drake — Izzy's Wife
- Pruitt Taylor Vince — Det. Deimos
- Directed
- Alan Parker
- Written
- Alan Parker
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 1,771 ratings
- Studio
- Winkast Film Productions, Union, Carolco 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.
