Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 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
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
- martial arts
- kung fu
- magic
- san francisco
- california
- kidnapping
- chinatown
- mercenary
- mythology
- truck driver
- adventurer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Victor Wong — Egg Shen
- Kate Burton — Margo
- Donald Li — Eddie Lee
- Carter Huang Chia-Ta — Thunder
- Peter Kwong — Rain
- James Pax — Lightning
- Suzee Pai — Miao Yin
- Chao Li Chi — Uncle Chu
- Jeff Imada — Needles
- Rummel Mor — Joe Lucky
- Craig Ng — One Ear
- Directed
- John Carpenter
- Written
- Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 3,483 ratings
- Studio
- Taft Entertainment Pictures, 20th Century Fox, SLM Production Group
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.
