Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom
- 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
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
- prison
- casino
- forgiveness
- gangster
- repayment
- machete
- rise and fall
- sociopath
- revenge
- extortion
The bill
Paul Bettany
Younger Gangster
Malcolm McDowell
Gangster 55
David Thewlis
Freddie Mays
Jamie Foreman
Lenny Taylor
- Saffron Burrows — Karen
- Kenneth Cranham — Tommy
- Eddie Marsan — Eddie Miller
- Andrew Lincoln — Maxie King
- Doug Allen — Mad John
- Razaaq Adoti — Roland
- Johnny Harris — Derek
- Cavan Clerkin — Billy
- Anton Valensi — Trevor
- Jack Pierce — Jack the Lad
- Lorraine Stanley — Attacker's Friend
- Directed
- Paul McGuigan
- Written
- Johnny Ferguson
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 247 ratings
- Studio
- Pagoda Film, NFH Films, Film4 Productions, British Screen Productions, BSB, Little Bird
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.
