Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- PG
- 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
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.
- police
- murder
- drugs
- police shootout
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ray Sharkey — Vinnie Fountain
- Sammy Hernandez — Raymond Sanchez
- Frank Sivero — Chu
- Rocky Giordani — Quintero
- Marc Macaulay — Waldo
- Tom McCleister — Rudy
- Max Winkler — Boy in Bathroom
- Annabelle Weenick — Mrs. Boyle
- Ossie Davis — Detective in Squad Room
- Nils Allen Stewart — Bobo #3 Thug
- Ralph Wilcox — McPhail
- Directed
- Henry Winkler
- Written
- Arne Olsen
Production
- Rating
- 4.6 / 10 · 169 ratings
- Studio
- Imagine Entertainment, Universal 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.
