Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 148 min
- Age rating
- NC-17
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Spanish — subtitles on.
The story
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
- drug dealer
- mexico
- gun
- dark comedy
- organized crime
- drug cartel
- mafia
- death
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Damián Alcázar
Benjamín García "El Benny"
Joaquín Cosío
El Cochiloco
Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Don José Reyes
María Rojo
Doña Mari Reyes
- Elizabeth Cervantes — La Cuñada
- Jorge Zárate — El Huasteco
- Salvador Sánchez — El Padrino
- Daniel Giménez Cacho — Capitán Ramírez
- Angelina Peláez — Mamá García
- Kristyan Ferrer — El Sobrino
- Dagoberto Gama — El Sargento
- Mauricio Isaac — El J.R.
- Alejandro Calva — Jefe de Policía
- Emilio Guerrero — El Alcalde
- Silverio Palacios — Hermanos Cucaracha
- Directed
- Luis Estrada
- Written
- Jaime Sampietro, Luis Estrada
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 805 ratings
- Studio
- Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Bandidos Films, Estudios Churubusco Azteca
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.
