Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
- corruption
- ex-cop
- private detective
- criminal lawyer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Candy
Frank Dooley
Eugene Levy
Norman Kane
Robert Loggia
Michael Carlino
Kenneth McMillan
Captain Clarence O'Connell
- Meg Ryan — Maggie Cavanaugh
- Brion James — Anthony Lazarus
- Jonathan Banks — Clyde Klepper
- Don Stroud — Sergeant Rizzo
- Larry Hankin — Kokolovitch
- Steve Railsback — The Cowboy
- Robert Burgos — Mel Nedler
- Tony Burton — Cappy
- Robert Gray — Butcher
- Larry Jenkins — Raisin
- Stacy Keach, Sr. — Judge
- Directed
- Mark L. Lester
- Written
- Harold Ramis, PJ Torokvei, Brian Grazer
Production
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 · 217 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Delphi V, Frostbacks
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.
