Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
- new york city
- jamaica
- night life
- bartender
- ambition
- rags to riches
- cocktail
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tom Cruise
Brian Flanagan
Bryan Brown
Douglas "Doug" Coughlin
Elisabeth Shue
Jordan Mooney
Lisa Banes
Bonnie
- Kelly Lynch — Kerry Coughlin
- Gina Gershon — Coral
- Ron Dean — Uncle Pat
- Ellen Foley — Eleanor
- Chris Owens — Soldier
- Louis Ferreira — Soldier
- James Eckhouse — Tourist
- Laurence Luckinbill — Richard Mooney
- Paul Benedict — Finance Teacher
- Robert Donley — Eddie
- Andrea Doven — Dulcey
- Directed
- Roger Donaldson
- Written
- Heywood Gould
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 1,664 ratings
- Studio
- Interscope Communications, Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III
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.
