Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
- new love
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- wind
- nurse
- loss of loved one
- flirt
- world war ii
- innocence
- lie
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James McAvoy
Robbie Turner
Keira Knightley
Cecilia Tallis
Saoirse Ronan
Briony Tallis (Age 13)
Romola Garai
Briony Tallis (Age 18)
- Vanessa Redgrave — Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- Brenda Blethyn — Grace Turner
- Juno Temple — Lola Quincey
- Benedict Cumberbatch — Paul Marshall
- Harriet Walter — Emily Tallis
- Alfie Allen — Danny Hardman
- Jérémie Renier — Luc Cornet
- Anthony Minghella — Interviewer
- Tobias Menzies — Naval Officer
- Peter Wight — Police Inspector
- Gina McKee — Sister Drummond
- Directed
- Joe Wright
- Written
- Christopher Hampton
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 4,819 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Relativity Media, Working Title Films
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.
