Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
- factory worker
- robbery
- blackmail
- drinking
- union
- detroit
- michigan
- blue collar worker
- vending machine
- car factory
- assembly line
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Richard Pryor
Ezekiel 'Zeke' Brown
Harvey Keitel
Jerry Bartowski
Yaphet Kotto
Sam 'Smokey' James
Ed Begley Jr.
Bobby Joe
- Harry Bellaver — Eddie Johnson
- George Memmoli — Jenkins
- Lucy Saroyan — Arlene Bartowski
- Lane Smith — Clarence Hill
- Cliff DeYoung — John Burrows
- Borah Silver — Dogshit Miller
- Chip Fields — Caroline Brown
- Harry Northup — Hank
- Leonard Gaines — I.R.S. Man
- Milton Selzer — Sumabitch
- Sammy Warren — Barney
- Directed
- Paul Schrader
- Written
- Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 210 ratings
- Studio
- TAT Communications Company, Universal Pictures
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.
