Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
- sheriff
- based on novel or book
- psychopath
- nevada
- highway
- serial killer
- adaptation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tom Skerritt
John Edward Marinville
Steven Weber
Steve Ames
Annabeth Gish
Mary Jackson
Charles Durning
Tom Billingsley
- Matt Frewer — Ralph Carver
- Henry Thomas — Peter Jackson
- Shane Haboucha — David Carver
- Kelly Overton — Cynthia Smith
- Sylva Kelegian — Ellie Carver
- Ron Perlman — Collie Entragian
- Sammi Hanratty — Pie Carver
- Ewan Chung — Shih
- Alain Uy — Cha'an
- Trieu Tran — Young Viet Cong
- Tom Parker — Young Johnny
- Directed
- Mick Garris
- Written
- Stephen King
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 233 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Television, Sennet Entertainment
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.
