Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
1987, love in time of war: bus driver George meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what's happened to them and help her face her past.
- civil war
- glasgow
- scotland
- socially deprived family
- bus ride
- bus driver
- nicaragua
- sandinism
- 1980s
The bill
- Salvador Espinoza — Rafael
- Margaret McAdam — George's Mother
- Gary Lewis — Sammy
- Subash Singh Pall — Victor
- Stewart Preston — McGurk
- Richard Loza — Antonio
- Greg Friel — Keyboard Player
- Anne Marie Timoney — Warden
- Andy Townsley — Taxi Driver
- Alicia Devine — Hospital Sister
- John Paul Leach — Doctor
- Directed
- Ken Loach
- Written
- Paul Laverty
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 95 ratings
- Studio
- Alta Films S.A., The Glasgow Film Fund, Road Movies Dritte Produktionen, Parallax Pictures, Institute of Culture, Filmstiftung NRW
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.
