Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
- vietnam war
- vietcong
- rape
- court
- menace
- based on true story
- jungle
- soldier
- anti war
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael J. Fox
Private Eriksson
Sean Penn
Sgt. Tony Meserve
Don Harvey
Cpl. Thomas E. Clark
John C. Reilly
Private Herbert Hatcher
- John Leguizamo — Private Antonio Diaz
- Thuy Thu Le — Oanh
- Erik King — Brown
- Jack Gwaltney — Rowan
- Ving Rhames — Lt. Reilly
- Wendell Pierce — MacIntire
- Sam Robards — Chaplain Kirk
- Dan Martin — Sgt. Hawthorne
- Dale Dye — Capt. Hill
- Steve Larson — Agent #1
- John Linton — Agent #2
- Directed
- Brian De Palma
- Written
- David Rabe
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,042 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia 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.
