Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
- husband wife relationship
- boss
- texas
- lover
- employee
- money
- killer
- double cross
- extramarital affair
- shallow grave
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- M. Emmet Walsh — Private Detective
- Deborah Neumann — Debra
- Raquel Gavia — Landlady
- Van Brooks — Man from Lubbock
- Señor Marco — Mr. Garcia
- William Creamer — Old Cracker
- Loren Bivens — Strip Bar Exhorter
- Bob McAdams — Strip Bar Senator
- Shannon Sedwick — Stripper
- Nancy Finger — Girl on Overlook
- William Preston Robertson — Radio Evangelist (voice)
- Directed
- Joel Coen
- Written
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,672 ratings
- Studio
- River Road Productions, Foxton 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.
