Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 143 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
- dreams
- government
- bureaucracy
- police state
- great britain
- technology
- dystopia
- office
- dark comedy
- satire
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jonathan Pryce
Sam Lowry
Robert De Niro
Harry Tuttle
Katherine Helmond
Mrs. Ida Lowry
Ian Holm
Mr. Kurtzmann
- Bob Hoskins — Spoor
- Michael Palin — Jack Lint
- Ian Richardson — Mr. Warrenn
- Peter Vaughan — Mr. Helpmann
- Kim Greist — Jill Layton
- Jim Broadbent — Dr. Jaffe
- Barbara Hicks — Mrs. Alma Terrain
- Charles McKeown — Lime
- Derrick O'Connor — Dowser
- Kathryn Pogson — Shirley
- Bryan Pringle — Spiro
- Directed
- Terry Gilliam
- Written
- Charles McKeown, Tom Stoppard, Terry Gilliam
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 3,811 ratings
- Studio
- Embassy International 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.
