Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
- chicago
- illinois
- woman director
- music
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Adrien Brody
Leonard Chess
Jeffrey Wright
Muddy Waters
Gabrielle Union
Geneva Wade
Columbus Short
Little Walter
- Cedric the Entertainer — Willie Dixon
- Emmanuelle Chriqui — Revetta Chess
- Eamonn Walker — Howlin' Wolf
- Tammy Blanchard — Isabelle Allen
- Eric Bogosian — Alan Freed
- Norman Reedus — Chess Engineer
- Yasiin Bey — Chuck Berry
- Beyoncé — Etta James
- Josh Alscher — Mick Jagger
- Tim Bellow — Man in the Caddy
- Tony Bentley — Lomax
- Directed
- Darnell Martin
- Written
- Darnell Martin
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 485 ratings
- Studio
- Parkwood 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.
