Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
- london
- england
- loss of loved one
- drug addiction
- jack the ripper
- based on comic
- united kingdom
- macabre
- aggressive
- somber
- urban gothic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Johnny Depp
Fred Abberline
Heather Graham
Mary Kelly
Ian Holm
Sir William Gull
Robbie Coltrane
Peter Godley
- Ian Richardson — Sir Charles Warren
- Jason Flemyng — Netley
- Katrin Cartlidge — Dark Annie Chapman
- Terence Harvey — Ben Kidney
- Susan Lynch — Liz Stride
- Paul Rhys — Dr. Ferral
- Lesley Sharp — Kate Eddowes
- Estelle Skornik — Ada
- Nicholas McGaughey — Officer Bolt
- Annabelle Apsion — Polly
- Joanna Page — Ann Crook
- Directed
- Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
- Written
- Terry Hayes, Rafael Yglesias
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 3,058 ratings
- Studio
- Underworld Pictures, Don Murphy Productions, Amy Robinson Productions, Jane Hamsher Productions
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.
