Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
- based on novel or book
- war veteran
- jazz club
- murder
- los angeles
- california
- biting
- private detective
- missing person
- framed for a crime
- aggressive
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Denzel Washington
Easy Rawlins
Tom Sizemore
DeWitt Albright
Jennifer Beals
Daphne Monet
Don Cheadle
Mouse Alexander
- Maury Chaykin — Matthew Terell
- Terry Kinney — Todd Carter
- Mel Winkler — Joppy
- Albert Hall — Degan Odell
- Lisa Nicole Carson — Coretta James
- Jernard Burks — Dupree Brouchard
- David Fonteno — Junior Fornay
- John Roselius — Mason
- Beau Starr — Miller
- Steven Randazzo — Benny Giacomo
- Scott Lincoln — Richard McGee
- Directed
- Carl Franklin
- Written
- Carl Franklin
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 470 ratings
- Studio
- Mundy Lane Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, Clinica Estetico
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.
