Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 178 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
- friendship
- bondage
- rape
- police
- gangster
- village life
- refugee
- blackmail
- mountain
- american dream
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Nicole Kidman
Grace Margaret Mulligan
Paul Bettany
Tom Edison
John Hurt
Narrator (voice)
Stellan Skarsgård
Chuck
- Philip Baker Hall — Tom Edison Sr.
- Patricia Clarkson — Vera
- Ben Gazzara — Jack McKay
- Chloë Sevigny — Liz Henson
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan — Martha
- James Caan — The Big Man
- Blair Brown — Mrs. Henson
- Željko Ivanek — Ben
- Jeremy Davies — Bill Henson
- Lauren Bacall — Ma Ginger
- Harriet Andersson — Gloria
- Directed
- Lars von Trier
- Written
- Lars von Trier
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 2,763 ratings
- Studio
- Zentropa Entertainments, Isabella Films B.V., Something Else B.V., Memfis Film, Trollhättan Film, Pain Unlimited Filmproduktion
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.
