Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
- lawyer
- courtroom
- auto industry
- father daughter conflict
- estranged daughter
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gene Hackman
Jedediah Tucker Ward
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Maggie Ward
Colin Friels
Michael Grazier
Joanna Merlin
Estelle Ward
- Laurence Fishburne — Nick Holbrook
- Donald Moffat — Quinn
- Jan Rubeš — Pavel
- Matt Clark — Judge Symes
- Fred Thompson — Dr. Getchell
- Jonathan Silverman — Brian
- Joan McMurtrey — Ann
- Anne Ramsay — Deborah
- David Byron — Carl
- Tim Hopper — Howie
- Robert David Hall — Steven Kellen
- Directed
- Michael Apted
- Written
- Carolyn Shelby, Christopher Ames, Samantha Shad
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 182 ratings
- Studio
- Interscope Communications, 20th Century Fox
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.
