Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
- philadelphia
- pennsylvania
- hitman
- presidential election
- politics
- audio tape
- paranoia
- faithlessness
- yell
- conspiracy
- tape recorder
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Peter Boyden — Sam
- John Aquino — Det. Mackey
- John McMartin — Lawrence Henry
- Deborah Everton — Hooker
- J. Patrick McNamara — Detective at Hospital
- Roger Wilson — Coed Lover
- Missy Cleveland — Coed Lover
- Curt May — Donahue
- Lori-Nan Engler — Sue
- Barbara Sigel — Girl Lover
- David De Felice — Boy Lover
- Directed
- Brian De Palma
- Written
- Brian De Palma, Bill Mesce Jr.
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,737 ratings
- Studio
- Cinema 77, Geria Productions, George Litto Productions, Viscount Associates
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.
